Jodie Foster Quotes
All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.
Quotes to Explore
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down.
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In my mother's ferocious striving to give me 'everything,' she had never considered that giving me 'everything' would make me different from her, and guilty about what I got. Different and Guilty are not the stuff on which comradeship is built.
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I had a small-town life - I worked at the local McDonald's for three years. I'm not sure why they kept me: I am something of a daydreamer and a dawdler, so they would only let me be the 'friendly voice' that greeted you when you entered the restaurant.
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I always check my harness before I do a stunt; I test-drive the cars I have to race or explode; I'm present at all pyrotechnical rehearsals; and I walk through everything step-by-step. No man should put their life in someone else's hands unless they have covered their own safety from all angles.
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It's been really important to me to create moments where there's a breath or moments where there's a laugh or moments where there's real life that's allowed to seep in through the cracks of whatever melodrama is happening, because that's what does happen in life.
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All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.
