Angelina Jolie Quotes
I don't need any crutches in order to concentrate. As a child I learned that you must be ready because I'd be yelled at more than other people and it would always be my fault. I learned that to be professional is your number-one priority. The art comes second. You learn that, in order to give your best performance, you have to be a good technician, which means never allowing negative influences affect your performance.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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We just here to do our job.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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If you want something badly enough, and decide that you will get it, you will.
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When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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Any kind of loss helps when you talk about it.
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I don't need any crutches in order to concentrate. As a child I learned that you must be ready because I'd be yelled at more than other people and it would always be my fault. I learned that to be professional is your number-one priority. The art comes second. You learn that, in order to give your best performance, you have to be a good technician, which means never allowing negative influences affect your performance.
