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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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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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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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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Comedy is all about rhythm and context, and there's all types of comedies, and it's about finding that right brand, that consistency in tone.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.
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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.
