Angelina Jolie Quotes
I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.
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I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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The time of night when you sleep makes a significant difference in terms of the structure and quality of your sleep.
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My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet points and a glass of water. We wrote him a fan letter and found ourselves sharing lunch and eventually a friendship.
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I just feel the traditional runway format is old-fashioned.
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Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.
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I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
