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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo."
"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."
"The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw."
"Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't."
"I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary."
"It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose."
"Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness."
"Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself."
"Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't."
"I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within."
"The country has been of better character since leaving the Buttes than E. of them, but has now a very fertile appearance. This may be said to begin about the 3rd crossing of Milk R of the line."
"However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate."
"When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times."
"No designer has really wowed me yet, I'm into other people's recommendations when it comes to fashion."
"If they had Nautilus on the Concorde, I would work out all the time."
"I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you."
"The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases."
"Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room."
"Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation."
"The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together."
"I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every different level, and if I could remix the song and do a dance remix, that's great. If I could do a classical version, that'll be great too. It's all just about expression."
"There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler."
"These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level."
"Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie."
"I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions."
"I've been reading horror since I was five years old."
"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."
"I really have to keep an eye on myself, because sometimes I think I might say something important."
"I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion."
"But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination."
"The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever."
"My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work."
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