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Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles.

Norm MacDonald

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Norm MacDonald
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 17
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Stand-Up Comedian
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Quebec
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My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!
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I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration.
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Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity but he, who trusts entirely to the world for the disposition of his peace, must inevitably participate [in] many privations and disappointments.
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