Quotes by Canadian/Canada authors (page 24)

"It's really a grand old, legendary theatre where the spirits of like Judy Garland and all these great performers have been. The clubs are way more underground"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"I think the inspiration came from the fans. Whenever I'm online or whenever I get a chance to really communicate with the fans and the audience, they always say that they would love to have all of the remixes on one CD"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting"

David Cronenberg, Director

"Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet"

David Cronenberg, Director

"What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other"

Tara Strong, Actress

"My son is old enough to respond to my work. To me, that's what it is all about"

Tara Strong, Actress

"I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters"

Tara Strong, Actress

"Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver"

Sarah Chalke, Actress

"I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am"

Sarah Chalke, Actress

"I don't smoke, I try to eat right, and I love doing yoga and going for hikes with my dog"

Sarah Chalke, Actress

"We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!"

Tara Strong, Actress

"Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it"

Tara Strong, Actress

"There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right to change them, changes in our system would be careful and deliberate"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better"

Sarah Chalke, Actress

"We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job"

Tara Strong, Actress

"In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic"

Tara Strong, Actress

"I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now"

Tara Strong, Actress

"I had to make squirrel noises as Bubbles and without realizing it, I was making the face and putting my fingers up to my face to look like a squirrel and everyone made fun of me for the rest of the day"

Tara Strong, Actress

"Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play"

Tara Strong, Actress

"There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters"

Tara Strong, Actress

"Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan"

Stockwell Day, Politician