Jodie Foster Quotes
I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
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Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
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Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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I grew up in New York.
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Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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I get worried for young girls sometimes; I want them to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not so withered and shriveled.
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When I first was able to fill in A-C-T-O-R for the occupation line on my passport, that was the first time I really felt, 'Wow, I'm home.'
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Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.
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If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.
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Almost every script that I've gotten has been for sort of the generic Hollywood type. I haven't chosen them. All the ones I have chosen are because I've been fascinated with the source material or because of the script.
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I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.
