Toronto Quotes - Page 5

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

  Hayden Christensen

  Kids

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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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• 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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• I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.

  Linwood Barclay

  Country, Book, Parent

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• I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome.

  Margaret Cho

  Racism, Asian, Syndromes

  "Margaret Cho: CHO Revolution". Video, June 12, 2004.

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• Me and Mr. Brainwash in Toronto signing his mural at Hard Candy Fitness Opening! #artforfreedom

  Madonna Ciccone

  Signing, Hard Candy, Opening

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• And Toronto's own Sergio Trujillo has redone his choreography totally, showing all the comical invention that we know he's capable of.

  Richard Ouzounian

  Invention, Choreography, Knows

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• I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Eye, Technique, Stories

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• Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.

  Rick Danko

  Country, Uncles, Artist

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• I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest.

  Eric Roberts

  Film, Coming Out, Spun

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• I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much.

  Scott Speedman

  House, Spending, Hanging Out

  "Scott Speedman for 'xXx: State of the Union'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. April 26, 2005.

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• With the fans and the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, the way I've been treated here has been awesome.

  Mats Sundin

  Organization, Fans, Way

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• Winning a Stanley Cup for Toronto, that's the biggest dream and the biggest goal.

  Mats Sundin

  Dream, Winning, Goal

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• I am in Toronto, shooting a movie for NBC.

  Paula Abdul

  Nbc, Shooting

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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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.

  Margaret Atwood

  Football, Games, Six Months

  Margaret Atwood (1990). “Margaret Atwood: Conversations”, Princeton, N.J. : Ontario Review Press

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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'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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• 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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