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.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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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.
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I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
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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.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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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.
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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.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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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.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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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.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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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.
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There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.
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We should not underestimate the harm it would bring should it be published.
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I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, 'I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years.
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The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in the digital universe. To code or create for Apple, you follow Apple's rules. If you're even allowed to.
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Sunday night I always cook if I can - if I'm home, I always cook.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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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.
