Jodie Foster Quotes

I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.

Jodie Foster

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 19, 1962

Topics

LifeChildPeopleWorldThinkAbout

I always wanted to grow up in a house full of books, English books, and I wanted the sort of fireplaces that worked, overstuffed chairs, that whole kind of fantasy of a bookish New England life. So the library gave me that; for the hours that I was there, I was surrounded by that atmosphere that I craved in my life.

Jhumpa Lahiri

LifeMeLibraryGrowMy LifeHouse

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

Robert Byrne

FunnyWalkManYouSmellImagine

There are indeed 'values' in the Harry Potter series, but they're confused with anti-values. Potterworld is a scrambled moral universe. There are Christian symbols in the series, but the author misappropriates them, mutates them, and integrates them into a supposedly larger and broader system where evil symbols are dominant.

Michael O'Brien

EvilUniverseConfusedChristian

If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.

Dominic West

LifeAmericanYouNextYearsAway

If the people dig it, then I dig it. If the people wanna hear it, then I wanna play it.

Bobby Keys

PeoplePlayDigHearThenWanna

'Ragtime' is about how we get through ugliness, how we talk together, work together, get through it together.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

WorkTogetherTalkThroughGetHow

The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.

Alicia Keys

ExperienceMeRememberPlayDesire

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Paul Valery

GreatManGreat ManLossOthersWho

Because my name is Hungarian, everyone assumed I knew about Hungary. I didn't. They also assumed that if you knew about Hungary, you also knew about the rest of Eastern Europe.

Tibor Fischer

RestNameYouEveryoneEuropeKnew

Once Europe's colonial empires were sent into deep decline, thanks to World War II, America became globalization's primary replicating force, integrating Asia into its low-end production networks across the second half of the twentieth century - just like Europe had integrated the U.S. before.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

WarWorldDeepAmericaGlobalization

I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.

Ricky Martin

MusicHopeI AmBridgesPhilanthropy

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Norman Cousins

LifeRespectManEducatedIndividual

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