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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here."
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"Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and don't forget to grasp your sleeve."
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"The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council."
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"Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried."
Work,
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"I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way."
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"If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset."
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"I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease."
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"Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask."
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"Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience."
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"It's a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use it so I kept it and added a little more. I wanted him to be a big bear."
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"I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so essentially a part and an explanation of much that exists, the two disciplines blended very well."
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"There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate."
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"We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business."
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"I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies."
"Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here."
"I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am."
"One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars."
"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."
"I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same."
"I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!"
"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status."
"I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh."
"If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?"
"Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star."
"I think the moral majority and religious right have been shrinking and having not quite as loud a voice in America, and all of a sudden people are coming to their own realizations going, 'Joe down the street is gay and he's a great guy.'"
"The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous."
"The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings."
Art,
"No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems."
"So the laughs had to come from the character, not because we had balloons in our shirts or were speaking in high voices. That was very important to us."
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