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  • I'm a tomboy from Nova Scotia. -- Ellen Page
  • Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent. -- Simon Newcomb
  • I grew up in Nova Scotia, so there weren't a whole lot of rules. -- Diego Klattenhoff
  • Terra Nova,' more than anything I've ever done in my life, is for everybody. -- Alex Graves
  • I once owned a home on an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. -- Joseph Monninger
  • There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova. -- Kenneth Edmonds
  • Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I. -- Harry Johnston
  • I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa. -- Peter MacKay
  • Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on the tube. 'Survivor' and 'X Factor' get twice the ratings. -- Seth Shostak
  • I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia. -- Peter MacKay
  • Within a few weeks of coming back from filming 'Lemonade Mouth,' I got these scripts, and 'Terra Nova' was the one that stuck out. I was like, 'Oh my gosh'. -- Naomi Scott
  • The first gig we ever played was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I'm from. I was in a band called the October Game, and we opened up for a Vancouver band. -- Sarah McLachlan
  • But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well. -- Nathaniel Smith
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  • I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them. -- Peter MacKay
  • We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer. -- Robert MacNeil
  • Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
  • I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova. -- Miroslav Vitous
  • With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew 'Terra Nova' is shortsighted, as myopic as it would have been to scrap the Hubble. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television. -- Stephen Lang
  • Even with an improperly ground mirror, the Hubble delivered extraordinary images. When the flaw was corrected, the Hubble delivered images of transcendent beauty and value for many years. So too 'Terra Nova.' Even in its flawed first season, each episode was full of marvelous moments and beautiful images. -- Stephen Lang
  • My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia. -- Kaniehtiio Horn
  • The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals. -- William S. Burroughs
  • I didn't know that there were any radio stations in Nova Scotia. -- Elvis Presley
  • I grew up in Nova Scotia, so there werent a whole lot of rules. -- Diego Klattenhoff
  • There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova. -- Kenneth Edmonds
  • Quinton: I think if every person had a Nova Reed in this world, then life would be a little sunnier. -- Jessica Sorensen
  • You're like my favorite song, Nova. The one that I never want to forget. That I want to play over and over again. -- Jessica Sorensen
  • Naked Lunch was from about a thousand pages of material. A lot of it overflowed, then, into the cut-up trilogy including Nova Express. -- William S. Burroughs
  • About half of the loyalists who left the United States ended up going north to Canada, settling in the province of Nova Scotia and also becoming pioneering settlers in the province of New Brunswick. -- Rachel Martin
  • The Nova Mob doesn't have motives, as we understand motives. "Sex is profoundly distasteful to a being of my mineral origin," as a leader of the Nova Mob, Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin, said on one occasion. -- William S. Burroughs
  • Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body. -- William Cobbett
  • Chevrolet was puzzled when they discovered that their sales for the Chevy Nova were off the charts everywhere but in Latin America. They finally realized that "Nova" in Spanish translates to "no go." Not the best name for a car... anywhere "no va." -- Tom Waits
  • Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting. -- Keith Donohue
  • Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is two people because it is a statement of the impasse of dualistic universe which he has created, they have created. I think that any dualistic universe ends in Nova. Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is a kind of God. A God of stupidity, cowardice, ugliness. -- William S. Burroughs
  • I started buying records in the '80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk. -- Juan Campodonico
  • I started buying records in the '80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk. -- Juan Campodonico
  • I Want To Hold Your Hand' is a great classic by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, I sure love that song. I did like the classic version, a rock-oriented song, then someone heard me do it with the Grant Green approach - Grant Green and Larry Young did it, with a bossa nova beat on the funky side. -- George Benson
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  • There is a red sandy beach in the Minas Basin in Nova Scotia that is unlike any other shore landscape I have ever seen. The world's highest tides wash its shores, and the soft cliffs of Blomidon Provincial Park are constantly crumbling away; whole trees will occasionally slide down to the sea to decay slowly in the wind and brine. -- John Burnside
  • The world of 'Terra Nova' as we joined it... there is a certain amount of prosperity there, and in fact I would say that I was a bit surprised when I first got there to see how it had all developed and how sophisticated the colony was - I had envisioned it being a bit more Swiss Family Robinson, but that wasn't my call. -- Stephen Lang
  • Maybe we've been taking nova precautions for a red dwarf. -- Hal Clement
  • I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk. -- Steven Sater
  • Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood. -- Howard Bloom
  • In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: â??Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new lifeâ??. -- Dante Alighieri
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