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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"

"It is better to start small than to not start at all because you are waiting to be perfect with your skills. The truth is that you can never achieve perfection in life. Even the greatest man on earth is still incapable of doing so. The ultimate goal is to start now and grow as you go."

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."

"I like to not be too involved in the beginning and during the process so as to keep this fresh look and be able to give constructive recommendation on the final production."
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"I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it."

"Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything."

"But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met."

"That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people."

"Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make."

"TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary."

"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."
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