Armand Trousseau Quotes
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.
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We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'
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People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
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Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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My son makes me want to be better so that I can be there for him.
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The TV mini-series is kind of a lost genre because the networks have given up on it.
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Americans want real solutions and good jobs.
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I'm not practising, I don't go to church, but what I got from it was a sense of belonging to something bigger. What I really miss is being forced to be in a community with people that aren't the same as you. Then, you really have to work through the ways that you're different.
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Use new drugs quickly, while they still work.
