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 like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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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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As a youngster, when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something happened to me that hurt me, I discovered that writing the truth is really therapeutic and amazing.
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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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I think we can all agree that women deserve access to life saving, early detection procedures.
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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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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life. Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.
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Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to toil in the mud is no god I want to have any part of. It's some kind of gnostic demon. It's some kind of cannibalistic demiurge that should be thoroughly renounced and rejected.
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With the war in Iraq, I had the cooperation of the Department of Defense. Kuwait was pretty eager to get American journalists in there, to show us what a wonderful place they are, and what great allies they are to America, even though they didn't actually fight in the war.
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My goal is to get outs as soon as I can. Strikeouts aren't that big a deal to me.
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I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.
