Jodie Foster Quotes
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Catalan politics emancipated from the Spanish politics on September 27, 2015. Since then, we've acted with a sovereign mentality, political sovereignty.
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more likely is if I did a limited run of something, whether it be a play or a musical.
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I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
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My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.
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My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
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I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, and you start making a song, and then it's too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this.
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If I slip up and receive a good gift, I will not have given a good gift. This is probably a natural law that affects us all and needs a name. The Gift Reciprocal Law.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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I definitely at times notice a difference in service when I go out. You know, I can walk in to grab a cup of coffee or walk in to have lunch or dinner, and people definitely seem on their best behavior, which is funny, or I start to see people clean up around me, which I always find really, really amusing.
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I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar.
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America is a powerful country. America is a great country. We have enormous resiliency. Any time we have had our back to the wall, we have come out a winner.
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I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him.
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I've still got a twinkle in me.
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Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht.
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Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday.
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Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
