Jodie Foster Quotes
I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
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Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
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What musicals need is a new me.
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I always love China, especially the old China.
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Admixing the inner space of dream, trance, and myth with the events of everyday existence characterized every belief system worldwide before the Greeks.....time meandered back and forth between reality and myth.
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No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before; I have even heard he has sometimes loved after: but at the time never. There is something in the formalities of the matrimonial preparations that drive away all the little cupidons.
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Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal.
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It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.
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I feel like Canadian movies should be as good or better than the competition because of the talent we have here. Someone like Ryan Gosling shouldn't have to come back here because it's a Canadian movie. He should want to come back because some of the best movies are being made here.
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I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.
