Jean-Luc Bilodeau Quotes
I don't watch that much TV. I think I should probably watch a little bit more, but I love the ABC Family shows.
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The world is always in movement.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.
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I read the paper every day. There are certain subjects that will catch my attention. I have an entire file of articles. Of course I make up the story, especially since most criminals are not very smart and fictional crime must be clever. I have to make sure the story I am telling is interesting and realistic. In this book I went on line and found out the manners of codes. I thought it interesting to use them as a jumping off point.
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In my family and in my community, I see people struggling with drug addiction, with poverty and the effects of generational poverty; I see people struggling with lack of access to healthcare.
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I don't watch that much TV. I think I should probably watch a little bit more, but I love the ABC Family shows.
