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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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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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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We have to come together, worldwide, and 'think.' We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.
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Michael Jordan did not get good at basketball by practicing 42 minutes a week, which is what most kids have in the computer lab. … Whether it's a scalpel, baseball bat or a computer, the skill in the use of a tool rests upon practice and familiarity, and that's what these kids are going to have to an unprecedented extent.
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Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
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This whole motherhood thing has really been, like, back to work from the get-go. It's sort of a balance.
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Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.
