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" When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me. "

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" In Canadian comedy, you'll almost never see guns. If you bring a gun into a scene, it's like, 'Whoa! Wow, how are we going to deal with that!' Guns in an American comedy are a given. Violence in America is used in a much more cavalier way. "

" Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded... They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country, you have to do everything. And in the States you can narrow-cast, you can be just a sitcom performer or a stand-up comedian or a sketch performer. "

" I do love jokes. "

" I guess chemistry is just another word for love. "

" The gay male is always going to be at the bottom. "

" Comedy is actually very macho driven. "

" Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch. "

" I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things. "

" This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things. "

" I won't play a teenager. "

" I'm a total nerd. I love fantasy. "

" I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's too thick. It's very nice when you come across the perfect orange, because it's really a beautiful experience. But the stakes are too high. "

" My feeling with my characters is that they all have a right to feel exactly the way that they do, so I never censor them. I don't judge them. "

" I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males. "

" Well I think comedy everywhere has lost a bit of its bite. In Canada, I can't argue with the quality, but it feels like it's gotten a little safe. "

" You know what worries me? Interacting with the kids. I'm afraid that's when my Tourette's will kick in. "

" I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges. "

" Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase. "

" If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work. "

" My theory is that comedy comes from little people. "

" I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted. "

" When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction. "

" I first got into fruit when I was a teenager, when my life was changing in every way. The first time I had a mango, at like 18, I was like, 'Where has this been my whole life?' "

" In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke. "

" Writing is a difficult thing. "

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" We have been so pleased with the response to our unique schools in the Nashville area, and we are confident that other areas will embrace our concept, as well. "

" Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss. "

" Art is difficult. "

" Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.' "

" I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really. "