"Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it."

-- W. P. Kinsella

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“I did a lot of theater in school. I thought maybe I wanted to go to law school or be a judge or a politician. And then I just kind of got smitten by the process of rehearsal and working with other actors and those kinds of challenges. And then comedy.”
“I'm a good listener, you know. My gran used to say that's why you've got two ears and one mouth. I just truly love what I do and treat it with a lot of respect and all these relationships in the music business that people talk about.”

Source : "Johnny Reid headlining Fredericton's Maritime Countryfest". "Information Morning Fredericton" with Terry Seguin, www.cbc.ca. June 20, 2015.
“History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass.”

Source : Frederic Harrison (1862). “The Meaning of History: Two Lectures”, p.25
“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
“I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. May 22, 2005.
“The real hero must fail in order to succeed.”
“I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18.”

Source : "Drinking Beer and Playing Pinball with The Newsroom's John Gallagher Jr". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. July 12, 2013.
“I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.”

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