Angelina Jolie Quotes
Our family may seem extraordinary in some magazines or something, but at home it's not. We're really just a very loving family. We're very close, and we don't read magazines. We just kind of go to work and come home. We try to keep a sense of reality into their lives. What's truly real, not Hollywood real.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Gags die, humor doesn't.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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Whenever I go on the red carpet and I'm a bit nervous, I just say to myself the mantra, 'Come on Barbara, you gotta get those pictures posted on Instagram!' That's all I have in my mind, like, 'Look serious now, maybe give a little smile, but a cheeky one,' but in the end, it's never how it looks.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
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My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.
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I get called 'Mayor West' a lot in airports. I've been very fortunate to have a fan base that keeps growing, and the work gets such a warm response and humor from people.
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I suppose I was always attracted to the producing function - trying to put things together and make things happen.
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Our family may seem extraordinary in some magazines or something, but at home it's not. We're really just a very loving family. We're very close, and we don't read magazines. We just kind of go to work and come home. We try to keep a sense of reality into their lives. What's truly real, not Hollywood real.
