Jodie Foster Quotes
The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.Jodie Foster
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
Taiye Selasi -
I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
Nathan Fillion -
I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
Orson Welles -
A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
Dan Savage -
There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
Laura Riding -
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
Wendell Willkie
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
Daniel Barenboim -
If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.
Harlan Coben -
You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
Paddy Considine -
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko -
Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
Yao Ming -
No person is just one particular emotion.
Octavia Spencer
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When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
Valerie June -
Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
Ice Cube -
I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
Nadia Giosia -
If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
Karl Lagerfeld -
The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
Orison Swett Marden -
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard
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I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.
Jack Ma -
I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.
Edmund Hillary -
I loved to watch cartoons and even made little stop-motion films in the backyard. At the time, I never really thought that it was something you could do for a living; it never actually hit me that people do that sort of thing or I would be capable of it.
Eric Darnell -
I'm not politically committed at all in the popular sense; that is, to any party. I'm committed to whatever's best for the normal working person. I'm not a great fan of politics.
Frank Oz -
At the age of six, I declared that I wanted to be an astronaut. My mother thought that was just fine, as it would encourage me to learn science, and besides, there really was no chance I would ever actually become an astronaut.
John M. Grunsfeld -
The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.
Jodie Foster