Jodie Foster Quotes

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

Jodie Foster

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.

Jim Murphy

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Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.

Joe Slovo

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I don't think I'll ever be a housewife.

Jessica Williams

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I was a huge comic book fan. It's weird because the era of 'Marvel' I was into turns out to be very important in the long run, but it's not the one that anybody romanticizes.

John Darnielle

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I want to be Batman.

Andy Dunn

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Zombies are so popular. There's a lot of chaff out there. For every one person who is legitimately passionate about zombies, there are a hundred people who are thinking, 'Hey, I can make a buck off of this.' The problem is that some of their stuff is so lame.

Max Brooks

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I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers.

Stephen J. Cannell

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Hollywood is difficult to navigate if you have integrity, so I opted not to work if there wasn't enough to do in a role, which doesn't have to do with the role's size.

Robin Wright

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The Republican Party is doubling down on this trickle-down theory that says, 'Thou shalt concentrate wealth at the very top of our society. Thou shalt remove regulation from wherever you find it, even on Wall Street. And thou shalt keep wages low for American workers so that we can be more competitive.'

Martin O'Malley

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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

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In Hell all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.

Judy Horacek

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I love the 'Omen' films because they're real and scary; 'The Exorcist' because I really thought that could happen; 'The Believers' because that was really great.

Johnny Messner

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