Angelina Jolie Quotes
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When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.
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I'd love to have a great relationship with my father. And unfortunately... I don't.
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And I didn't know what that meant for a long time. It was only when I began to travel and look and live beyond my home that I understand my responsibility to others.
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I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning.
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The interesting thing for me is that everybody felt that I was really wild when i was unbalanced and desperate to communicate something and didn't have a sense of purpose. But I've never been so crazy and wild as I am with my son or as I am now.
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I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them.
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If you become aware of a public self, you're in danger of becoming a very artificial person.
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I love doing action. And I love doing dramatic films, and I'd never really been able to combine them.
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Each person can make their difference.
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It's getting harder to make decisions to work for the sake of working. Like everybody, I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply. Sometimes something like The Tourist comes up and it's just fun, but it's not as easy to find projects that I have to do. I have to be home and I have to do other things, but I don't have to work as much.
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It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell. If you're going to spend two years of your life on something it has to matter to you, you have to be passionate about it.
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Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing.
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People will always say all sorts of stuff. Let them. I'm enjoying my life
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The money it would cost to buy another car could be [used to] build two schools. So it's an easy choice that makes me very happy.
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All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.
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I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.
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I always hate speculation on the news, so I don't want to be somebody who speculates.
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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.
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Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.
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I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.
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I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'
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I'm at a strange place I suppose in my life. I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose-you drop into a different kind of serious.
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What nourishes me also destroys me.
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I'm having to do a lot to keep my clothes on and not be cast in girlfriend roles. Some women will say, "I don't want to be a man - I want the opportunities I can get as a woman." Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent.