Jodie Foster Quotes
But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
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Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.
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I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
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But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.
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If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranjhi trophy, I think money is there. There's no good reason why you should not work hard, because at the end of the day, you want to play for your country.
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There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.
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'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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This is why cup finals are so special because on the day anyone can beat anyone. That's what it's all about and that's why for me the FA Cup and the Carling Cup are the best cups in the world. That's the beauty of the cup.
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Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
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Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?
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Whaling was the oil business of its day.
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Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.
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I'm like 6'2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.
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I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?
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One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in – I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.
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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
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You can't be wrong in the three-tech position. I like that. It allows a lot of freedom.
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The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide open spaces surrounded by teeth.
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Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?
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But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.
