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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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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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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Movies are a couple of hours, while books transport you for days or weeks. You can live in the pages of a book.
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The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.
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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.
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Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
