Angelina Jolie Quotes

I love directing, It means so much to me to direct stories about subject matter that I care deeply about. I can act in many things, and you can try to experience different characters, but to direct is years of your life and you have to really love it and believe in it.

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• If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Believe
  • Success

• Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Trust
  • Just

• Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Job

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • You
  • Human

• There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Age
  • Relationship

• I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Fire

• Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Literature
  • Changes

• I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Lifestyle

• The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Author
  • Living

• I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• I've got a clear line between work and real life.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Record
  • Bully
  • Historically

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Life
  • Know
  • Ocean

• I gather inspiration from all aspects of my life and things I see: love, heartache, mistakes, hopes, regrets, successes and faith. And it helps to have a wild imagination.

  

  Wendy Higgins
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Hopes

• I know, for me, 'Grease' was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I kind of fell in love that that genre.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Love
  • Know
  • Genre

• Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Community

• That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Die
  • Legacy
  • Him

• If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

  

  Peter Zumthor
  • Real
  • Light
  • Sun

• I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Pleasures

• I am legitimately Scottish. I can officially say - yes. Yeah, I am from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.

  

  Karen Gillan

• I love directing, It means so much to me to direct stories about subject matter that I care deeply about. I can act in many things, and you can try to experience different characters, but to direct is years of your life and you have to really love it and believe in it.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Experience