Jodie Foster Quotes
I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
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I had a slight hope the phrase 'spark joy' might become popular, as it was the keyword that I wanted to put forward in the first place.
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If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
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I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality.
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The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.
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I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.
