“I stopped talking directely to the camera and started interacting more with my neighbours, which is one of the things that some people later said seemed to bother them.” Canadian Tire Guy actor Ted Simonett, on how his role has shifted over the years
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“So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies.” South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, in a statement to the Daily Variety
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“Anything that gets people talking about Jesus is good… People are very interested in the idea that the Church has secret information they are hiding. It demonstrates that we no longer live in the ‘modernist’ world. You can not take some rational points and reason up from them. The saddest thing is that […]
“As far I’m concerned, the two poles of politics were not Left Wing or Right Wing. In fact they’re just two ways of ordering an industrial society and we’re fast moving beyond the industrial societies of the 19th and 20th centuries. It seemed to me the two more absolute extremes were anarchy and fascism. This […]
“Now most of us are aware of the plight of the sturgeon. But how many people realize the way ovarian sacks containing unfertilized eggs must be harvested from the wombs of a living sturgeon?” Jennifer Bain, Toronto Star
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“What Jesus meant is the most deeply potent political, cultural, social question. To ignore it, or leave it to the bullies and the salesmen of the televangelist sects, means to walk away from a central battle over American identity. At the moment, the idea of Jesus has been hijacked by people with a series of […]
“Adam Gopnik just emailed me to tell me that, for some strange reason, a debate that he and I did for the Washington Monthly on the Canadian health care system… has now been resurrected on various blogs… In our debate, Adam vigorously defended the Canadian system, and I attacked it. But wait! That was […]
“All right, so I’m not winning director.” George Clooney, on winning Best Supporting Actor for Syriana
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“I just want to thank the people who take big risks in their daily lives when there aren’t cameras rolling and there aren’t people there to applaud, and who stand up for peace and justice and against intolerance.” Crash director Paul Haggis, on winning Best Original Screenplay
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“I’ve never in my life had to beg a guy to shoot. People are like, ‘Calm down, coach.’ I’m yelling at a guy to shoot the ball when he’s open. They say if you live long enough, you’ll experience a lot of things; I haven’t lived long enough but in my […]