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I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

Michael J. Fox

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Michael J. Fox
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
Actor
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Television Producer
Voice Actor
Edmonton
Alberta
Michael Andrew Fox
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By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.
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I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.
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Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you.
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As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked my father, up my ass.
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The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.
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I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.
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I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.
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I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of civil society, to believe or not believe whatever they like.
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Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.
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I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.
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The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.
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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.
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