Quotes by Canadian/Canada authors (page 3)

"Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women"

Emily Carr, Artist

"He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy"

Sarah Chalke, Actress

"Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canada's war effort as effective as possible"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"I think making a good film shot is joyful"

William Shatner, Actor

"Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor"

William Shatner, Actor

"Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?"

William Shatner, Actor

"You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming"

Emily Carr, Artist

"To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world"

John McDonald, Leader

"I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film"

David Cronenberg, Director

"I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game"

David Cronenberg, Director

"From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born"

Emily Carr, Artist

"It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome of a great voice and for us to share together was awesome"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true"

David Cronenberg, Director

"When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing"

George Stephen, Businessman

"If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God"

Eric Butterworth, Educator

"Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness"

Jean Vanier, Philosopher

"I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person"

Alanis Morissette, Musician

"A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted"

George Stephen, Businessman

"When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"God can only do for you what He can do through you"

Eric Butterworth, Educator

"I had to wear that suit, so I put in my required time in the gym. But I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now"

Ryan Reynolds, Actor

"Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts"

Jean Vanier, Philosopher

"When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking"

Rick Moranis, Actor

"You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?"

Ryan Reynolds, Actor

"It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"I really enjoy the people. I find them to be better educated and wittier"

Nicholas Lea, Actor

"Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff"

Stephen Harper, Politician

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Quotes by Canadian authors