Jodie Foster Quotes
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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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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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
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If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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I didn't really enjoy school in general.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
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Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write, and don't try to please readers who like something different.
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One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.
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I love my headscarf. I wear my head wrap every day with my hoop earrings.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.
