Edmonton Quotes

• The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Differences, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was going to be a High School teacher. I was studying at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, up in Canada. I was also acting in a wonderfully supportive theatre community in Edmonton. There's a lot of support for theatre there. So, I was having a great time, but I didn't consider acting as a serious career initially, because even the most successful actors that I know in Edmonton are not super successful. Acting over there is just not a success-oriented career.

  Nathan Fillion

  Teacher, School, Successful

  Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Edmonton is Canada's answer to Omaha. Solid, unassuming, and surrounded by a whole lot of nothing. It's a place that makes you think of sensible shoes.

  Kathy Reichs

  Thinking, Shoes, Make You Think

  Kathy Reichs (2013). “Bones Are Forever”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.

  Oksana Baiul

  Use, Boots, Wilson

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• If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, New York, Winning

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• I was assistant in Edmonton with Wayne as captain, and Kevin Lowe was the other assistant.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Kevin, Assistants

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• We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Team, Long

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• I'm not a famous celebrity of any kind. I'm a guy from Edmonton who's got a great job and I'm loving it.

  Nathan Fillion

  Jobs, Guy, Kind

  "Waitress - Nathan Fillion interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Edmonton is not the end of the world but you can certainly see it from there.

  Mordecai Richler

  Funny, World, Ends

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• [ If I wasn't making music ] I'd probably end up going to school, I never went to school. Or just give up and get my plumber's ticket and move back to Edmonton and become an alcoholic.

  Mac DeMarco

  Giving Up, Moving, School

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• I won't miss him. Maybe the West Edmonton Mall will miss him, but not me.

  Glen Sather

  Hockey, Nhl, Missing

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• All my career I've gone to teams on the decline. I went to Quebec when they were losing the Stastny brothers. I went to Edmonton after they lost Gretzky and Messier. I went to Anaheim when it was an expansion team. I came to Montreal after they'd won the Cup and were headed down. I was beginning to think it was me.

  Ron Tugnutt

  Brother, Team, Hockey

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• My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term "junk dealer") in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman.

  Preston Manning

  Jobs, Junk, East

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• I always wanted to be an actor, but in Edmonton, Alberta, that's not a success-oriented career. So I said, 'I'll get my (teaching) degree and then I'll see what happens, but I'll always have that to fall back on.' So if anybody were to look at me and say, 'Oh, you're an actor,' I could always say, 'Hey man, I'm a teacher!'

  Nathan Fillion

  Teacher, Fall, Teaching

  "Nathan Fillion Dishes on Being Steve Trevor in Wonder Woman". Movieweb Interview, www.movieweb.com. January 28, 2009.

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• On his attempt at the Edmonton Oilers empty net: I guess they respect my shot because they were all ready at the blue line.

  Patrick Roy

  Hockey, Blue, Lines

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• To a reporter after Ray was pounded by Edmonton's Georges Laraque: What are you, the fight doctor now or something? You've never been in a fight in your life, so what are you talking about?

  Rob Ray

  Fighting, Hockey, Doctors

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• We can no longer tolerate what's going on in Ottawa and Edmonton. What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act.

  David Suzuki

  Science, Jail, Effort

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