When Life Takes Away, Something Of Greater

There's Something I Have About Being Canadian - There's A Distance It Gives You When You Live In The States And Operate In American Culture. You Approach Familiar Things A Different Way; You Come At It From A Different Angle. It's A Trait That Runs Through A Lot Canadian Artists' Work And Actors' Work And Musicians' - That Kind Of Special Remove.

I Find As Long As I Acknowledge The Truth Of Something, Then That's It. I Know What It Is And Then I Can Operate. But If I Overestimate The Downside Of Something Or The Challenge Of Something And I Get Too Obsessed About The Difficulty Of It, Then I Don't Leave Enough Room To Be Open To The Upside, The Possibility.

Pay Attention To What's Happening Around You. Read The Book Before You See The Movie. Remember, Though You, Alone, Are Responsible For Your Own Happiness, Its Still Okay To Feel Responsible For Someone Else's. Live And To Learn.

Almost Instantly [after My Announcement Of Parkinson's], I Saw The First Couple Of Days The Coverage Was About, You Know, "fox's Parkinson's, Blah, Blah, Blah." Then, Two Days After That, I Saw The Coverage Turn. It Started To Become, "can Young People Get Parkinson's?" All Of A Sudden, The Conversation Turned To Become About That. And That Was One Of The First Eye-opening Things.

Pain Is Temporary, Film Is Forever.