Jodie Foster Quotes
Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.
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Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.
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As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
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I'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh type of look - sometimes artists are a little afraid of really putting the makeup on me.
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I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.
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I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.
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You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.
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R. A. Fisher, J. Neyman, R. von Mises, W. Feller, and L. J. Savage denied vehemently that probability theory is an extension of logic, and accused Laplace and Jeffreys of committing metaphysical nonsense for thinking that it is.
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During one scene, I had to do a shooting drill. He put a psychological spin on it.
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Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.
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I've seen suffering first-hand, and we have to make sure we relieve people's suffering.
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I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.
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I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.
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The one thing you've got to do with reading is it's something you've got to do every day. Anything you want to do in life, you've got to practice every day.
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Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.
