Jodie Foster Quotes
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You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
Karin Slaughter -
It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.
Karen Robards -
A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
Earl Weaver -
It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
Jack White The White Stripes
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
Zora Neale Hurston -
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
Umberto Eco -
The song of the blues, the song of the music, was something a lot of people missed out on. They thought they had to swagger a certain way or bark at the mic, and you don't have to do that.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
W. H. Auden -
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken -
I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
Haley Bennett
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I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.
Irene Dunne -
It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.
Nancy Kerrigan -
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
Iris Murdoch -
Cheney refers to his vice presidency... as one of the most consequential vice presidencies in American history. And it clearly was.
R. J. Cutler -
If you keep telling a youngster he is no good, he might begin to doubt himself. A pat on the back could bring the very best out of him.
Harbhajan Singh -
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
Nathalie Sarraute
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To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.
Philip Kaufman -
God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith.
Andrew Bonar -
When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.
Ogden Nash -
Enhancing a woman's silhouette and enhancing a woman's beauty - both contribute to enhancing her confidence, so they're synonymous, really.
L'Wren Scott -
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
Jodie Foster