Jodi Balfour Quotes
I love Canada. The natural environment here is so inspiring. It never ceases to make me feel grounded and calm and to help put things in perspective. And I love Canadians. A lot.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.
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This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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I just throw on foundation and under-eye concealer, then dust bronzer on my cheeks so they look defined.
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If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.
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I think people associate genre and music style with creativity, but it's all creativity regardless of what pipeline it comes down.
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My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.
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Zombies are soulless creatures, and being soulless has been empirically proven to result in an unpleasant disposition.
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I love Canada. The natural environment here is so inspiring. It never ceases to make me feel grounded and calm and to help put things in perspective. And I love Canadians. A lot.
