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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war."
"I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact."
"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."
"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."
"Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has."
"The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions."
"Depending on how we start the season, I can play center or wing... It doesn't matter to me."
"There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical."
"The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world."
"She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!"
"I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing."
"You need a very, exceptionally clear vision. And to me, a vision is something that you can say in one sentence. The fewer the words the better."
"Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston."
"After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two."
"My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots."
"I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to."
"I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them."
"That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere."
"I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing."
"If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit."
"It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak."
"I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby."
"That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don't and I've always said that on these kinds of moral issues, people have the right to their own opinions."
"I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them."
"Currently a level of unemployment of 7 percent or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation."
"On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience."
"If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious."
"There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products to enough people with enough speed."
"I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher."
"We both have a great loyalty to it, and I think that it's important to give it our best shot."
"As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did."
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