Jodie Foster Quotes
With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.Jodie Foster
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
Oriana Fallaci -
During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
Questlove -
It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
Beau Willimon -
There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
Paloma Faith -
Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
Dan Hill -
For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
Yair Lapid
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
Kapil Sibal -
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
Ian Mckellen -
It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
Maisie Williams -
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.
Naomi Klein
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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
Karl Philipp Moritz -
Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
Sam Shepard -
Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
Ramon Rodriguez -
For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
Calvin Johnson -
Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
Laura Bell Bundy
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I've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving.
Paul Theroux -
I love Jamaica so much. I've been there so much, and I think it would be great if we could shoot a movie there.
Jonathan Levine -
I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.
Maggie Q -
I think what drives me is a sense of, well, who is going to do it if you don't do it? I think that one of the things that we've seen over time, especially with progressive social movements, is most of them - it's surprising to people - are sort of driven by that.
Eugene Puryear -
It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.
Mark Rylance -
With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.
Jodie Foster