Jewel Staite Quotes
I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.
Quotes to Explore
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.
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It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.
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The problem with independent films is that they can be hit or miss. I've seen scripts that have blown me away. But there have to be all the right ingredients in place to make them work: the director, cast, publicity, distribution.
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid – and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
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I remember the first time I heard a co-worker refer to himself as a foodie. It immediately irritated me. Was he implying that he appreciated food more than other people? That his love of eating was somehow more evolved than mine? Don't all people love the thing we can't live without?
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My God, he looks like he's beating a chicken.
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I worked with people like Edward Snowden. Well, not people who took stuff home.
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It's hard to tell why something touches a zeitgeist and when that same show doesn't in other places.
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I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.
