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We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.
Paul Haggis
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Paul Haggis
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 10
Film Director
Film Producer
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London
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Paul Edward Haggis
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I miss my mother very, very much.
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I've lived in America for many years. I mean, I love being a Canadian, but I truly identify with America. I love America so much.
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I was fired from my own television show, CBS's Family Law. It was the second time this had happened in my career, the first being when I was fired from The Facts of Life. I had been grateful to work in TV for so long but had always been chasing a career as a feature writer-director and had completely failed.
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I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
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Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.
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The wrong one will start saying things like withdraw with honor. We've heard phrases like that before, and they led to thousands and thousands of deaths. Democrats always want to look tough.
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