Jodie Foster Quotes
I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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No granite is so hard as hatred and no clay so cold as cruelty.
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You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.
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The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.
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There's no objective reason anyone can point to that proves a horror story is innately inferior or that it's doomed to fail as a work of art because of it being horror. Anyone saying otherwise is being intellectually dishonest.
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I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.
