Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alannah Myles

Make sure you love what you do or it will eat you alive.

Douglas Coupland

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

Diana Krall

That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love songs, they are not specific, those kinds of feelings don't change.

Diana Krall

You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

Donal Logue

Yeah, I'd done a bunch of pilots. Some that had gone for a while. One that went for 13 episodes. But I had never been on a show that had lasted more than that.

Donal Logue

I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication.

Donal Logue

I got a lot of flak for having Kirk as the lead because they all claimed it was a much harder sell, but no one else could have done that part for many reasons.

Paul Anka

My demographic of people have been very supportive.

Paul Anka

I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.

Tommy Chong

They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable.

Victor Garber

The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group.

Victor Garber

I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing.

Bruce Cockburn

There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.

Bruce Cockburn

All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am.

Bruce Cockburn

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.

Chantal Kreviazuk

When I get up and play, I'm not having to sell myself because people are coming in with an open mind even if they haven't heard me before.

Wilfrid Laurier

This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other.

Justin Trudeau

I think Canadians want to get a feel for the people who will serve them... and, for me, I think that Canadians will trust people who trust them.

Nicole Appleton

I could see us doing solo material in the future.

Nicole Appleton

It's really exciting and kind of special, especially having our own band. It's just completely different.

Deborah Cox

Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great.

Robert Gibson

We're not going to have any Canadian department stores any more.

Lynn Coady

It makes me proud not just to be a Canadian writer but to be a Canadian, to live in a country where we treat our writers like movie stars.

Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally.

I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary.

I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right.

When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.

My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing.

Michael Ignatieff

What we want is to become masters in our own house.