Quotes by canadian authors

I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride. Harland Williams
Pride Will Citizen Always Canadian American American Citizen Now
I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples. Harland Williams
People Humor Side Minds Typical More Abstract Stuff Like Bowling Opposed Go Sitcom Want Explore Usual
When the biceps become too strong, it brings the shoulders forward and makes for a gorilla-like posture. Harley Pasternak
Strong Become Too Posture Biceps Makes Shoulders Forward Brings
Creating an overall healthy lifestyle for yourself doesn't require a radical diet or significant life change. In fact, it can be attained through common sense decisions about the way we eat, move, and live. Harley Pasternak
Life Change Yourself Healthy Sense Radical Live Way Significant Eat About Fact Through Attained Lifestyle Overall Healthy Lifestyle Diet Move Common In Fact Common Sense Decisions Require Creating
The blue light emanating from our cell phones, our tablets and our laptops is playing havoc on our brain chemicals: our serotonin, our melatonin. It's screwing up our sleep patterns, our happiness, our appetites, our carbohydrate cravings. Harley Pasternak
Happiness Phones Light Cell Phones Our Tablets Havoc Chemicals Brain Up Cell Blue Screwing Patterns Laptops Appetites Carbohydrate Playing Sleep
Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know what's going on. It's a phony separation that people are making between the two. Henry Mintzberg
People Separation Phony Lead Leaders Between Know Making Discouraging Manage Managers Going Quite Who Two
I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis. Henry Mintzberg
Science Experience Creativity Management Vision Practice Analysis Draws Insight Lot Craft Crafts Arts Meaning Certain Use Describe Technique Amount
A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express different storytelling ideas. Howard Shore
Music Picture Ways Composer Ideas Does Lot Different Storytelling Express Different Ways
In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy. Ian Hacking
Crazy You Generation Every Rules Firm How Behave Quite
As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers. Ian Hacking
Constitution Better Political Revolution Sense Only Could Excess True Return Metaphor Times Mean
It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is. Ian Millar
Discipline Following About Instructions Execution Sport Plan
Choosing kindness is just as easy as smiling. Jacob Tremblay
Kindness Easy Smiling Just Choosing
I'm a fighter, so when someone says 'no' to me, I try to figure out what I need to adjust to hear the yes. Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
Me Try Fighter Says Adjust Out Someone Hear Yes Figure Need
I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place. James Naismith
Man Money Goals Power Way Pleasure Out Seeing Some More Sure Am Than Place Derive Pair Basketball
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. James Nicoll
Words Down Other Borrow Vocabulary Pockets Pursued Beat Unconscious New Occasion Just Them Languages English Rifle
The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment. James Randi
Problem Animals Make Always Been Human Human Beings The Problem With Experiments Whether Decisions Beings Treatment
Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can. Jane Siberry
Music Thoughts Change First Few Gathering Back Our Books Scattered Taking Powerful Self-Help Where Senses Us Chords Core
'The Taxi Ride,' from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I'm consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that's a sad song. Jane Siberry
Sad Myself People Song Ride Walk Side Positivity Sunny Lift Greater Hear Lot Trying Want Place Taxi Really Street Second Album
I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art. Jason McCoy
Art Great Fear Think Great Art Honestly Greatest Making
One of the fun things about being an actor is stepping outside yourself and outside of your own experience. It's challenging yourself to totally commit to something that in your core is so wrong. Jason Priestley
Experience Yourself Own Totally About Something Outside Wrong Stepping Commit Being Your Fun Fun Things Actor Challenging Things Core
Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me. Jason Reitman
Family Me Relationship You Strange Youth World Feeling Narcissism Own Skin Those Having Uncomfortable True Feel Around Selfishness Childhood Being Really Your Connected Things
My cats are really sassy and sophisticated, but most importantly, they are picky. Jason Wu
Cats Picky Sophisticated Most Importantly Really Sassy
For me, Bloodshot was the least appealing character that Valiant had. He was so cold. Jeff Lemire
Character Me Cold Valiant Had He Least Appealing
I'm the type of person who far prefers a vacation filled with trips to museums and art galleries, shopping and exploring vintage flea markets, people-watching at cafes, and discovering delicious restaurants as opposed to lounging on a beach for days on end. Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Art Shopping Type Markets Restaurants Trips Beach Delicious Days Opposed Discovering End Person Flea Galleries Far Flea Markets Exploring Who Filled Vintage Vacation Museums
Sometimes in order for change to be made in a positive fashion, we must force ourselves to look unblinkingly at painful realities and reevaluate. Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Positive Fashion Change Sometimes Made Ourselves Must Look Force Reevaluate Order Realities Painful
I watched some shows like 'The Simple Life' and 'The Anna Nicole Smith Show,' but I hadn't really watched 'The Bachelor' until I was cast on 'UnReal.' Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Life Simple Bachelor Some Unreal Cast Simple Life Anna Like Until Smith Really Show Shows Nicole Watched
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