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"Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers."
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"Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers."
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"Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians."
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"From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada."
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"Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes."
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"The joke newspaper, it says Canada abandons the monarchy."
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"Canada has always been a strong supporter of China's accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete China's accession."
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"I think it's a little early to tell what the economic impact will be. This year our cattle prices have been particularly high. The demand for beef has remained strong in this country, even though there was the single find in Canada earlier this year."
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"The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same."
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"When I started out in Canada, I did a lot of voice-overs and commercials."
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"With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system."
Cooperation


"It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting."
Acting


"I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it."
End


"I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once."
People


"In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene."
Beginning


"Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days."
Television


"My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom."
Hope


"I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way."
Society


"I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years."
Years


"Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors."
Actor
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