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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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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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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Most of the conversation about how geopolitics is changing in the 21st century focuses on the shift from west to east and on how we're moving from the bipolar power equation of the Cold War to a new bipolar relationship, that of the U.S. and China, that determines the mood music for everyone else.
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You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.
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When you get older, you try to get what you wanted as a kid. Maybe you wanted an arcade in your house or Q-Tip rapping on your beats.
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(On his Catholic faith): 'Certainly it has been the rock on which I have always been able to rely in good times and in bad, and it is the lodestone of my life.'
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I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.
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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.
