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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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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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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There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.
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I hate interference, and I don't interfere in others' lives.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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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 love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
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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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My connection was we never want to put ourselves in a position as a nation where we pit group against group.
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Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.
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Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation.
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I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.
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Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.
