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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I've been reading horror since I was five years old."
"I'll remember you... I remember everyone I've lost."
"The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop."
"There's no skill. You can be a rock and move into another cash bracket."
"We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that."
"I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy."
"It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count."
"I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through."
"Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?"
"The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape."
"The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii."
"Punctuality is the soul of business."
"It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with."
"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."
"When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick."
"At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory."
"You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it."
"Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes."
"It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required."
"Any chance you have to sit back and be the one watching is great."
"I would never say one was more important or more gratifying than the next because there's a tremendous amount of work, as you know, that goes into winning a cup."
"In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't."
"I've never seen anything like it since. Some of the Canada Cups came close, but by then a lot of European players came and played in our league so we were more familiar with them."
"What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling."
"Here's probably a short answer - I never feel in this piece that I'm stepping out and being Andrea Martin. I always feel like I'm Golde, so whatever Golde would do within those realms, that's what I would do."
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