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Small: The thing about Canada is, youre not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC
Lexa Doig
"The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC"
Lexa Doig, Actress
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Small: Men with style are great because they have a sense of self
Lexa Doig
"Men with style are great because they have a sense of self"
Lexa Doig, Actress
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Small: My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor
"My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor"
Victoria Pratt, Actress
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Small: I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the char
"I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things"
Victoria Pratt, Actress
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Small: Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We werent together when these changes
"Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus"
Victoria Pratt, Actress
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Small: Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and g
Alden Nowlan
"Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes"
Alden Nowlan, Poet
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Small: Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world
"Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world"
Robert MacNeil, Journalist
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Small: Parents can plant magic in a childs mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, so
"Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit"
Robert MacNeil, Journalist
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Small: But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was inves
"But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me"
Robert MacNeil, Journalist
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Small: The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons
"The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons"
Robert MacNeil, Journalist
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Small: And Im in favor of that because I have a gay son, whos a very successful theater designer
"And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer"
Robert MacNeil, Journalist
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Small: Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of
"Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better"
Jane Rule, Author
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Small: People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who f
"People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives"
Jane Rule, Author
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Small: I believe only in art and failure
"I believe only in art and failure"
Jane Rule, Author
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Small: Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of
"Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique"
Jane Rule, Author
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Small: A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love
"A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love"
Leonard Cohen, Musician
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Small: One of the big draws of the show is heres a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, h
"One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge"
Kiefer Sutherland, Actor
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Small: Im not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does.
"I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character"
Kiefer Sutherland, Actor
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Small: I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel Ive al
"I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press"
Kiefer Sutherland, Actor
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Small: The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something thats well thought-out and m
"The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous"
Kiefer Sutherland, Actor
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Small: Ive had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundr
"I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?"
Kiefer Sutherland, Actor
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Small: Ive always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has I love
"I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me"
Kiefer Sutherland, Actor
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Small: There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next t
"There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment"
William Vickrey, Educator
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Small: Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out th
"Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain"
William Vickrey, Educator
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Small: Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements
"Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed"
William Vickrey, Educator
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Small: You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see
"You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out"
Mary MacLane, Writer
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Small: Ive never made plans for more than a day ahead
"I've never made plans for more than a day ahead"
Mary MacLane, Writer
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Small: When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a m
"When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten"
Mary MacLane, Writer
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Small: The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis o
"The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary"
Mary MacLane, Writer
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Small: My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to l
"My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum"
Mary MacLane, Writer
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Small: I do not see any beauty in self-restraint
"I do not see any beauty in self-restraint"
Mary MacLane, Writer
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Small: Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and b
"Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things"
Mary MacLane, Writer
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Small: We are going to have a huge Oscar issue, you are going to see everything in such beautiful detail
"We are going to have a huge Oscar issue, you are going to see everything in such beautiful detail"
Steven Cojocaru, Critic
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Small: We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that
"We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that"
Steven Cojocaru, Critic
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Small: The criteria, for me, is movie star. Its Hollywood. Not Somalia
"The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia"
Steven Cojocaru, Critic
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Small: On the red carpet, I saw all these great stories, and I also got to see the plastic surgery up close
"On the red carpet, I saw all these great stories, and I also got to see the plastic surgery up close"
Steven Cojocaru, Critic
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Small: Im immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day
"I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day"
Steven Cojocaru, Critic
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Small: I was on this bridge overlooking the carpet... I think it went all the way back to Oregon
"I was on this bridge overlooking the carpet... I think it went all the way back to Oregon"
Steven Cojocaru, Critic
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Small: I liked Nicole Kidman because she is so fashionable she can do less is more. It was very, very simple, but it
"I liked Nicole Kidman because she is so fashionable she can do less is more. It was very, very simple, but it was so chic. Some people thought she looked washed out, I didn't at all"
Steven Cojocaru, Critic
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Small: You know us crazy kids. Well do anything crazy to our hair
Ryan Gosling
"You know us crazy kids. We'll do anything crazy to our hair"
Ryan Gosling, Actor
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