Jodie Foster Quotes
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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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.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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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?'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
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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.
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If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
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I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.
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It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost.
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Cheney refers to his vice presidency... as one of the most consequential vice presidencies in American history. And it clearly was.
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Bowing to well-meaning, special-interest groups is an immoral way to run a company, given all the people it would hurt. We simply cannot allow arbitrary rules to be forced on us by organizations that lack business expertise.
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A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
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I loved reading 'Anne of Green Gables' and 'Little Women' and Jane Austen. Those were times when people really did have only one true love in their life.
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
