Jodie Foster Quotes
'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.
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In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
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I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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I am just trying to be a good, protective mother. I want to give Bertie as normal a childhood as possible while preserving his privacy.
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If you don't like me, it's your problem.
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I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all about being comfortable with what you're given and what you have and being able to flaunt it without being insecure. It's about empowering women, not making them feel weak or less.
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Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.
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I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
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Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder.
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Hi and Merry Christmas. I’m honored to have a chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide system of mass surveillance watching everything we do. Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information.
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I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.
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A reader should know what he might reasonably expect under a particular label.
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No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually don’t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition can help provide some warning signs, they can do little to prepare you for the feeling of rootlessness that follows when fate flips your world upside down. Anger, confusion, sadness, and frustration are shaken up together inside you like a snow globe. It takes years for the emotional dust to settle as you do your best to see through the storm.
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Advice? Look at your pay statements.
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I think the best advice I give is to try not to write. Try not to overwrite, try not to make it sound too good. Just use your own voice. Use your own style of putting it down.
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This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.
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'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.
