Jodie Foster Quotes
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I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
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If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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Doing something for Victoria's Secret would be great - I love Doutzen Kroes. She's so special to look at but seems like a very normal person. She's true to herself - that's important to me.
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I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.
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You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.
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It wouldn't be possible because there aren't enough airports for all the men who'd want to flee the country.
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Something terrible came to the hills and valleys on that meteor, and something terrible - though I know not in what proportion - still remains.
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When we fight we're going to fight fight, for real fight. He thinks he's the ninja, I'm the ninja- Ninja Gaiden, American ninja, real motherfucking ninja. This ninja martial artist right here-I started that shit.
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No two people see things the same way.
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I just want to get into the action. And voice-over work is all action.
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I want to be an artist, not an erotic freak. I don’t want to be sold to the public as a celluloid aphrodisiac.
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Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.
