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  • Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by Tom Thomson and his colleagues. The concept of this painting grew out of a number of forays into Algonquin over the years. From its conception I intended Algonquin to be a subtle tribute to Tom Thomson. But I also wanted it to be a response to the natural beauty that so typifies the grandeur of Ontario’s first provincial park.

  • When I was growing up I had three wishes. I wanted to be a Lindbergh-type hero, learn Chinese, and become a member of The Algonquin Round Table.

  • On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.

    Winter   Fog   Years  
    Norman Mailer (2007). “Harlot's Ghost: A Novel”, p.15, Random House
  • That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.

    Quoted in AlexanderWoollcott, While Rome Burns (1934)
  • I was haunted by a bear attack that happened in Algonquin Park in 1991. The problem was that I dont believe in ghosts, so that ruled out an exorcism. My other choice was to start writing.

  • I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.

    Drinking   Two   Alcohol  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • We want to build the most entrepreneurial postsecondary system in North America. That's why we're pleased that academic institutions, like Algonquin College, University of Ottawa and Carlton University are working to make that happen through the Campus-Linked Accelerator program. They are helping nurture our business visionaries and igniting their entrepreneurial spirit, helping them to succeed and to expand our economy.

  • I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

    Drinking   Two   Alcohol  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

    Girl   Men   Glasses  
    "News Item" l. 1 (1926)
  • You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

    Funny   Women   Thinking  
    On being challenged to use "horticulture" in a sentence, in John Keats You Might as well Live (1970) p. 46
  • At Murry Bergtraum [High School] if you were really funny you sat at this table at with all of the funniest dudes, the toughest, the coolest - everybody sat at that table. It was like the ghetto Algonquin Round Table. [Comedy] was my entry, my membership card.

    School   Ghetto   Cards  
    Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.
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