John W. Foster Quotes
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.
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I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.
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There are so many women out there who are single moms, really not by choice, and doing it and making it work every day. I think it's becoming much more a part of our culture and I hope that it will become more accepted and that those women are going to be more and more appreciated, respected and supported.
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Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy.
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Will Forte is such a nice, extraordinarily creative human being. Utterly fearless.
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Simple ideas are easier to understand. Ideas that are easier to understand are repeated. Ideas that are repeated change the world.
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When I did my first film, I was in college; I did it as a senior thesis. The original version was 60 minutes. But I developed it and made it almost 90 minutes. In 2007, it premiered in Venice, and I stopped in London to develop a script with my dad that fell apart, and we started 'Gravity.'
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One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
