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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If Donald Trump wants to harm cities and the people who call them home, he'll have to come through me.
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The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to labor, the law will not interfere to compel him. The master must do his own flogging, as in the case of an ox or a horse.
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As a practicing Jew, I have studied with Christian teachers whom I respect for who they are and what they are, including their positive concern with Jews and Judaism.
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Music is nothing separate from me. It is me. I can't retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. You'd have to remove the music from me surgically - like you were taking out my appendix.
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Don't write us off. Nobody thought we'd win the World Series in 2005, but we did. There are years when we think we're great, and we're bad. I mean, the funny thing about this game is that you can't figure it out.
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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.
