Quotes about "Time & Aging"

To map the Governor General's Award is to map both the past and the future of Canadian literature, and to be nominated for my first book is wonderful. ”

There is a huge tension in trying to write with small children because they demand your attention and your time with a fierceness that can be matched by nothing else, but if you are successful in writing while you have small children, I actually think that your writing is likely to be deeper than it was before. ”

I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father. ”

Look, the, the - this country has not lived within its means for a very long time, and, and the truth is we're going to have to take our medicine. ”

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff. ”

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion. ”

First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets. ”

People were expecting Rouge to go bankrupt, so there was a lot of anxiety. The corporate culture problem was even worse than in Russia. And at the same time, the work rules were more difficult. ”

The future is in green energy; it's in making steel for energy-efficient cars. ”

We absolutely do need to make sure that our borders are secure. But what we need to realize and remember is that ICE was established in 2003 right at the same time as the Patriot Act, the AUMF, the Iraq War - and we look back at a lot of that time and legislation as a mistake now. And I think that ICE is right there as a part of it. ”