Angelina Jolie Quotes
I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to live.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I love zoo sanctuaries.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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I pay a lot of attention to the people I let surround me. I learn something from those people and from everyone - from other musicians, from people on the street.
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On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates.
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to live.
