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"My family's said to me from the beginning, 'People are always going to tell you to pick what you want to be when you grow up,'" says Simone. "'You take that and throw it out the window, that's garbage. online travel agencies in toronto People are complicated and we love many things and we're passionate about many things. You can be a human rights ac- tivist and also be doing these comedy plays in your community and that's OK. All those things are a part of who you are and you can love them equally.' So I was happy doing that."
Simone eventually went back to school at Ryerson University for another degree in radio and television arts. While there, she decided to take on an agent in the hopes of landing better online travel agencies in toronto theater roles. On her first audition, Simone landed a HGTV hosting gig that afforded her the chance to travel all over the world. After two seasons on the show, Canada's music and pop culture channel MuchMusic contacted her about becoming their social news VJ, interviewing pop icons and world leaders, and doing specials on HIV/AIDS, bullying and climate change. The offer put Simone in a difficult position. "So I have two degrees and I had been really focused on working on human and in- ternational rights," online travel agencies in toronto Simone recalls. "But all of a sudden there was this opportunity to be on this platform where I would have an empowered voice to talk about these compelling issues that I cared so much about, to what I consider the most important demographic — young people, the ones who are going to change the world for the next genera- tion." Simone accepted the job because "I trust myself with that role. I don't know if I trust everybody who goes into the world of hosting, who gets to speak about it. I don't know if they really care and understand the responsibility you have with your voice."
Her hosting gigs eventually took her to Los Angeles, and Simone's agency asked her if she'd be interested to try her hand at acting during a pilot season that happened to need a lot of Indian actors. Though Simone was considered for the pilots Outsourced and Nevermind Nirvana that year, she didn't get cast until early last year when she read for the part of Cece Meyers, the smart, stunning model best friend to Zooey Deschanel's kooky Jess Day in New Girl. "I'm so shocked I got into the world of professional acting," says Simone. "The fact that somebody would give me a dollar to act is amazing."
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As for where she'll go from here — movies, commercials, endorsement deals? — she's excited but keeping it all in perspective. "I've been in this indus- try for a long time in many different ways," she says. "I know sometimes there are big chapters and sometimes there are just pages, and you just have to live it in a way that is in the present and appreciate it and understand that you can't take anything for granted."
Even if her life were to change online travel agencies in toronto — once again — in the blink of an eye, Simone says she can handle it. "Moving country online travel agencies in toronto to country, you could see it as something that was so hard, but I was never made to feel that way," she says. "My family was always able to see the positive power of change."
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