Toronto Quotes - Page 4

• My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy.

  Samantha Bee

  Crazy, Home, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Personally, I love Toronto.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  "Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje On Set Interview THE THING". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. October 7, 2010.

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• I'm just this kid from Toronto who got his start.

  Hayden Christensen

  Kids

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• But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there's a difference in the people, and I had health care.

  Aaron McGruder

  America, Differences, People

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• I had spent years working in radio at different stations in Toronto; I wasn't in the stage company of Second City.

  Rick Moranis

  Cities, Years, Different

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• If you're going to do a movie about the Village, it's pretty nice to shoot in the village and not be in Toronto.

  Robin Williams

  Nice, Village, Ifs

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I know what it's like to live in a cold climate. I grew up in the Snow Belt, north of Toronto in Canada, and I did years and years of running outside.

  Victoria Pratt

  Running, Years, Snow

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• I had dropped out of theater school after six months and was just staying on my mom's couch at home in Toronto.

  Scott Speedman

  Mom, Home, School

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• TORONTO -- When Cameron Crowe was flying to the Toronto film festival recently, he walked down the aisle of the plane and studied his fellow passengers sitting in front of their personal TV sets. They were just having the greatest time, there was so much joy in their eyes, .. And I looked to see what they were watching. And it was all out-and-out comedies. So many people watching The Longest Yard. And I just got the feeling that, 'You know what? People just like to let it all go, and have a laugh'.

  Cameron Crowe

  Eye, Laughing, People

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• Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.

  Stephen Leacock

  People, Found, Certain

  Stephen Leacock (1937). “My Discovery of the West: A Discussion of East and West in Canada”, London : J. Lane the Bodley Head

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• It's tricky to be such an independent person, from Canada. It doesn't matter how incredible your work is, if you're an unknown person and you're from Toronto, people's eyes glaze over immediately as soon as you introduce yourself.

  Shary Boyle

  Independent, Eye, People

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• I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.

  Robbie Robertson

  New Orleans, Band, Memphis

  "POP MUSIC : Robertson Rides Rock Train Again". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. September 29, 1991.

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• The Sage of Toronto... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle's present vulgarity.

  Guy Debord

  Gossip, Boredom, Sage

  "Comments on the Society of the Spectacle". Book by Guy Debord, 1988.

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• I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.

  Jake Epstein

  School, Play, Band

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• Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome.

  Jean Drapeau

  Rome, Montreal, Milan

  "House Beautiful", Vol. 133, (p. 216), 1991.

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• My label in Toronto was Stand Pat and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

  Pat Gillick

  Thinking, Assessment, Labels

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• I remember attending Toronto Comicon shortly after the release of Captain Marvel and seeing a five-year-old girl who'd come in a handmade Captain Marvel outfit with her hair moussed up - and I totally got the need for this book, for this hero. Someone who looks like her, and acts like her. So, in a way, Captain Marvel helped pave the road to the expanded role of female leads.

  Axel Alonso

  Girl, Book, Hero

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• The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Yankees, Years

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• I literally finished 7th Heaven, went up to Toronto, and started SAW. So, it was definitely a little mind change.

  Beverley Mitchell

  Heaven, Mind, Littles

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• I think "Avatar" is kind of a unique category where people are enjoying the unique theatrical experience even though they may have seen it on the small screen. They want to have that immersive, transportive experience. "2001: A Space Odyssey" played for three years at the Loews cinema in Toronto. I remember that. It just kept playing. People wanted to return to that experience. That may not be the best example because I think "2001" took 25 years to break even.

  James Cameron

  Thinking, Unique, Break Even

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20, 2010.

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• I think professionally I admire people and the way they've handled their careers and being in the media. But the people that I used to inspire me and keep me going were my peers in Toronto - I would see the same girls going to audition after audition, and their resilience to do it again, and I found that inspiring.

  Anna Silk

  Girl, Thinking, Media

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• The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.

  Hugh MacLennan

  Country, Healing, Grace

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• (Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Cities, Canada, Portraits

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• I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.

  Paulo Costanzo

  Kids, Thinking, Hands

  "Royal Pains Q&A: Paulo Costanzo". The Morning Call Interview, www.mcall.com. May 20, 2009.

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• I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.

  Paulo Costanzo

  New York, People, East

  "Royal Pains Q&A: Paulo Costanzo". The Morning Call Interview, www.mcall.com. May 20, 2009.

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