"The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve."

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Source : "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by Bruce W. Powe, 2006.

B. W. Powe

#Country Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“Nothing works until it does. Nobody knows anything. You don't know what people are going to respond to. People are always surprised by stuff.”
“Oh, and the easiest way to make someone furious is to tell her to calm down.”

Source : Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm”, p.188, Macmillan
“Follow the yellow brick road.”
“Love is ever new because it never groweth old.”
“I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.”
“I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.”
“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”
“I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.”

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