Jodie Foster Quotes
I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to the people who work with me.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
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I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
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As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep Coke's secret recipe on your iPhone.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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India buzzes for its players and that makes you feel special.
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It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
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I'm going to insist on making sure that we've got decent funding, that we've got enough teachers, that we've got computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve.
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Make no mistake: I do not valorize our military out of some unfamiliar instinct. I grew up in a military family, and have my own record of service, and have stayed closely engaged with our armed forces throughout my public career. In the American system, the military has value only inasmuch as it protects and defends the liberties of the people.
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I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to the people who work with me.
