Jodie Foster Quotes
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I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
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From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.
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It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.
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Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.
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I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.
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I know a lot of people who enjoy rap music who aren't black. You can't just say it's black music. To segregate films the way Hollywood likes to segregate films, ultimately everyone loses.
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I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
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I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.
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A good song is a good song, and if I'm lucky enough to write it, well....! I get more kick out of writing than I do singing. I reckon I've written a thousand songs and had over 300 published.
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If I die tonight, then I guess I die tonightLet me go on.
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I have been making hip-hop since I was a kid growing up in New York in the '80s and '90s. It's always been a hobby of mine - I've been making beats and writing songs for as long or longer than I've been acting.
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I love the theater so much, and it's where I feel most comfortable. I love the people and the community.
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But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.
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Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market.
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Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.
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I don't think of myself as an explorer but as an athlete.
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I was tired of playing the goodie-two-shoes.
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I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another’s river views.
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Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park,' but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.
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When your team is on a losing streak, you schedule a game with a cream-puff opponent. Then you go with the hot hand.
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We used to speak Irish - Gaelic Irish - around the dinner table, but over the years, we lost that.
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Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.
