Quotes About Perspective

When I do an editorial or when I do a campaign, I bring that lens to every space.

I went camping for 33 days, and now everybody seems to care.

When I have basketball camps and I tell kids my story, they're like, 'You played in Maine? In Israel? You did this and that?' I experienced a lot, and I feel like it made me not only the person I am today, but the basketball player I am.

Canada is not Canada. We are not the country we think we are.

Some newer writers worry about books set in Canada having a big appeal, but it has never been an issue for me. I haven't wanted to write in the States because I don't know the States.

I don't have a great story, but I love Boards of Canada. I didn't get into it when it was happening; I got into it later on.

Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'

Scotland is the Canada of England!

We're lucky we live in Canada. If we were living in the United States I'm sure it would be different - all the media attention that we would get in the private part of our lives.

I'm Canadian, and so American politics aren't really in my wheelhouse.

I know a lot about Canadian politics. I lived in Canadian bars for six years.

I'd always felt like a Canadian living in the U.S.

I'm American by birth, but I consider myself Canadian.

Everything about American politics makes me proud to be Canadian.

Canadians can be funny.

Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.

I had a ringside seat to cancer. As have most people.

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

If you've ever had a brush with cancer, you're always thinking a pain might be something serious.

Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite.

Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not.

It might be hard to believe, but as difficult as cancer was, in some ways it was good for me.

When the person you love has cancer, they are, in a sense, living on Planet Cancer. They are in a place where you are not. And you can't follow them.

I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.