Jodie Foster Quotes
I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.
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Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.
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Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
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If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
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I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.
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There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.
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It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.
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My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much.
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I remain on 'SVU' because it is an incredible opportunity.
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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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Where there is love there is life.
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It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.
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I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries.
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If you've got the platform and the ability to make a difference, then this goes beyond 'should' and reaches the level of 'must.' You must make a difference or you squander the opportunity. Wasting the opportunity both degrades your own ability to contribute and, more urgently, takes something away from the rest of us.
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I want to do things of significance, things that will inspire people to know how good life can be.
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It's totally mystifying to me how anyone could have canceled 'Taxi.' I don't understand it because that stuff is rare.
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The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.
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I think I scare people. I really have to watch myself.
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I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.
