Asserted Quotes

I think you have to keep your distance from mainstream Hollywood in order to be a normal human being. I mean, I work there, and I like being there, but I love having an anonymous life. I think there`s definitely such a thing as being too famous. The reason why I stayed in Canada had everything to do with the kind of films we used to make before the commercial mandate came in effect at Telefilm. They were films that asserted an independent vision of the world. They weren`t just cheap versions of American genre films...but movies that spoke to the human condition. Now, I`m beginning to wonder why I stayed and if it was a huge mistake. (On herself and other Canadian actors & filmmakers, such as director-actor-writer Don McKellar, who stayed in Canada rather than go Hollywood and make movies in the U.S.) If Canadian films don`t have a purpose, then what are we still doing here? We`re beginning to freak out a little. Why make a commitment with so little reward? The Canadian films out there have been so weak, it`s been kind of depressing".

We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you`ve sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.

You asserted the legitimacy of the right of the people of this island to freedom and independence. Many of your comrades made the ultimate sacrifice.

It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed.

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else`s life.