Jodie Foster Quotes
I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.
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I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.
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Let's be honest: we all watch the show at home and play 'armchair' 'Survivor,' inserting our opinions, comments and yelling at the TV screen.
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A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.
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All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which Japanese or Chinese artists work: their themes are pre-ordained, whereas mine are invented at will.
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I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.
