Jodie Foster Quotes
I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
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The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.
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I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn't see a clearer picture: what's the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
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We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.
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I think it's very insulting to say, 'White people don't understand.' What are you talking about? You're part of the problem then if you're... speaking and labeling all white people, saying they don't understand the issue or saying they can't relate. That's really not giving people much credit, is it?
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I work with a charity called Donate My Dress. It's got chapters all over the country where you can donate special-occasion dresses. Prom is a big deal when you're 15 years old, and it enables girls who don't have the money to come in and choose something special.
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My parents are refugees from Vietnam, so they didn't grow up with 'Star Wars.' I don't think they know what's going on in the movie at any given time.
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For me, Glasgow is all about the people and the spirit of the place. You have enough Gregg's bakers, though, I'll say that. The opening of the 1977 'Star Wars' movie was possibly the only time I've seen a longer queue round the block than in Glasgow for sausage rolls. That was quite an eye-opener.
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I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.
