Angelina Jolie Quotes
When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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It's always humbling, knowing where we came from. From being friends with the janitor in the bar and being friends with the waitress - because they were some of the only people that were listening when we finished playing - to this, we are able to appreciate every single person and every single piece of it, because we came from nothing to this.
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Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.
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Even through 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League,' I have yet to have that instant recognition and at such an early stage, where people totally didn't know my name, but they knew my face immediately.
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Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
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I have girlfriends in this business who talk about their personal lives, and it works for them, and I love it. But not for me.
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I first paid attention to fashion when I was around 15, but I don't really care much about it these days.
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In 'Twice Born' I play my character in her 20s, 30s and 50s. For the fifty year old scenes, I had some prosthetics; it was interesting to see how I'm going to look when I'm fifty-five or so. I actually saw similarities between my grandmothers and my mother.
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When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.
