Angelina Jolie Quotes
I loved being on the other side of the camera. I loved watching another actress in the spotlight, do an extraordinary job, and I loved making her beautiful and interesting, protecting her emotions, and showing people her talent.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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It's a lot harder to reach people's hearts than it is to reach people's brains.
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It was weird at first but then it was kind of fun. I was just laughing and cracking jokes, being a cheerleader.
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I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
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I loved being on the other side of the camera. I loved watching another actress in the spotlight, do an extraordinary job, and I loved making her beautiful and interesting, protecting her emotions, and showing people her talent.
