Jodie Foster Quotes
I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or directing my own movies.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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No one needs anything; they have to want it.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
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Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
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I certainly like the rumour that I was the father of Elizabeth Hurley's baby. It made me think I could impregnate women in a different way to everyone else. Elizabeth and I were never alone in a room together, so I must be a very powerful man indeed. Actually, I'm thinking of suing the baby!
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Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.
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I remember on Deus Ex there was one programmer - Alex Durand, a guy who still works for us - he decided he was going to get through the game without ever using a weapon. I would never think to do that. And that's fine.
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself.
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I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or directing my own movies.
