Robert J. Sawyer Quotes

I've long said that if Canada has a role on the world stage, it's principally as a role model, a demonstration that people of all types can get together and live in peace and harmony, which is something we really do most of the time here.

Robert J. Sawyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: April 29, 1960

Topics

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I've made up so many stores about my name, I can't remember.

Joaquin Phoenix

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It's difficult to always have to be contextualized within the careers of your parents, and it's difficult not to feel like you can stand alone, but hopefully I'll earn the ability to stand alone over time.

Maya Hawke

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Four of my children are daughters, and I've watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.

Robert K. Massie

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Whenever I've met with businesses that want to locate in Colorado, the state's infrastructure for moving people and products is a top concern.

John Hickenlooper

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The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt through wasteful spending, and it is time that we cut that waste and start reducing the size of our government.

Matt Salmon

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Kids today don't watch a black and white movie.

Robert Englund

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I'd like to think that I'm brave. That's a really wonderful personality trait to have. I would love to think I'm the type of person to go rescue someone.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

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I've had friends who did pilots, and I'd say, 'What happened to that?' and they'd say, 'It didn't go,' and it literally goes into a void of nothingness because no one gets to see it. All that money and talent and time put into it.

Rosemarie DeWitt

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My concern is the really great concepts that are features, not companies. There isn't enough advertising to support all those features, and in compression times, advertisers tend to flock to safe names and sites that have real traction.

Ross Levinsohn

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I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.

Luc Besson

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Once the big lights come in, you can feel self-conscious. How can you capture the scene without ruining it and freezing people up? You keep it small and lean.

Jonathan Krisel

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The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.

Chuck Palahniuk

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