Angelina Jolie Quotes
I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
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I have to satisfy my audience.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.
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Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
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My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.
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Whether that's questioning the dominant opinion of the day, the conventional wisdom of the day, or whether it's questioning the policies that come out of Washington, or out of our government, generally, I think media's job is to look at it and say, "What's really going on here? What's the story behind what you see?"
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I've got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that you'd have to decipher. I guess I try to never take myself too seriously.
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I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.
