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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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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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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I can just put my head down and train hard.
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Young people of this century, like my son, didn't live through all those things that went on during that period of time, from 1930 to 1950. They're missing that experience. To go from a bicycle to a vehicle that takes somebody to the moon - only we saw this kind of thing.
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Every time I sit down with a powerful working mom, I wrestle with whether to ask the 'mom question.' I don't want to be part of perpetuating a double standard by asking women in business a question that men are not asked.
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We can wash people in the water all we want, but we can never wash their parents out of their hearts.
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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.
