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.
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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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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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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 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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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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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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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.
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When your child comes to you at a young age and declares he or she is passionate about this or that, the natural tendency for many parents, out of love, is to simply support that decision. That's the path of least resistance, but it's not necessarily the best path, in my opinion.
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All I am certain of right now is that I don't want to go anywhere, and that's not bad for someone who always used to run.
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When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.
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Drink up, he said. Drink up. This night thy soul may be required of thee. - The judge
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The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.
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People are quite frequently eccentric.
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I've introduced myself with comedy, and once you've introduced yourself as something, that's where people keep you. That's where people like to hold you.
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And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.
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For products with revision possibilities, there is no better source available than a company going out of business!
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Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
