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 don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

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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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• In real life, I tend to yell at people a lot. Not because I'm bossy or mean, but because I'm frustrated.

  

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• The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

  

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• This is a universal human dream - that brains, not brawn, will rule - and the fact that America has the world's finest institutions of higher education may be our greatest single national asset.

  

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• I tell anyone who is willing to listen that auditioning is the hardest part. Once you get the job, you have the job. You can go to work. You learn your lines. You learn your character. With auditioning, you can have five in a week with different people.

  

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• To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

  

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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.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • World
  • Work
  • Family