Quotes by Canadian/Canada authors (page 44)

"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

"Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience"

Lexa Doig, Actress

"Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat"

Lexa Doig, Actress

"My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young"

Lexa Doig, Actress

"My most recent purchase was a black lace corset"

Lexa Doig, Actress

"It doesn't take much to make me happy"

Lexa Doig, Actress

"I had cleavage that would make Dolly Parton proud. But those things are really heavy and I'm pretty slight of frame, so I took them out. No one even noticed"

Lexa Doig, Actress

"I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they were not about nudity"

Lexa Doig, Actress

"For the past 10 years, people have been making fun of the eighties. Why are we bringing them back?"

Lexa Doig, Actress

"With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing"

Neil Young, Musician

"The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it"

Neil Young, Musician

"Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement"

Neil Young, Musician

"One new feature or fresh take can change everything"

Neil Young, Musician

"I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water"

Neil Young, Musician

"Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record"

Neil Young, Musician

"As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks"

Neil Young, Musician

"When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be"

Mary MacLane, Writer

"The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then"

Mary MacLane, Writer

"One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep"

Mary MacLane, Writer

"Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things"

Mary MacLane, Writer

"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be"

Mary MacLane, Writer

"I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness"

Mary MacLane, Writer

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life"

William Osler, Scientist

"Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease"

William Osler, Scientist

"Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women"

Stephen Lewis, Politician

"Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee"

James Cameron, Director

"My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer"

James Cameron, Director

"I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean"

James Cameron, Director

"I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots"

James Cameron, Director

"There are a lot of great actresses out there. You learn to appreciate each one for what they offer"

Victoria Pratt, Actress

"It's all about exploring the more unpredictable aspects in the character, not just fighting people"

Victoria Pratt, Actress

"In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls"

Victoria Pratt, Actress

"Gardening is not a rational act"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

"We have been so pleased with the response to our unique schools in the Nashville area, and we are confident that other areas will embrace our concept, as well"

Scott Thompson, Comedian

"We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer"

Robert MacNeil, Journalist

"After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past"

Robert MacNeil, Journalist

"I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century"

Jeff Healey, Musician

"One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth"

Gabrielle Roy, Author

"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world"

Leonard Cohen, Musician

"In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress"

Leonard Cohen, Musician

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