Jodie Foster Quotes

I don't direct so that I can have an identity and so I can go on to CGI movies. I had a big identity as an actor, and that's not what I'm looking for from directing. Directing is a whole different goal.

Jodie Foster

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Strangers shouldn't be allowed to take a picture of your child and sell it for profit.

Melissa McCarthy

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If I were a child of Tibet or of Arabia, I suspect the path I'd walk would be the Buddhist path or the Muslim path. And I don't mind saying that I don't invalidate any of those paths.

John Shelby Spong

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What's the point of re-releasing an album? The original sounded good, why change something about it?

Ritchie Blackmore

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I was an English major, and I always wrote poems.

Mat Kearney

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Sci-fi works for me as a way of getting across a social conceit couched as entertainment. Social realist movies lost their way because they are just not that entertaining.

Miguel Sapochnik

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I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way, including 'Lost' and 'The Wire.' As a kid, I'd read books while playing.

Joshua Roman

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After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.

Douglas Adams

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A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on.

Deborah Moggach

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If you think about what everyone else will think, you forget to just make music.

Chris Stapleton

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I don't see how I ever could have thought that having an all-white crew for a special about race would be OK.

Brett Gelman

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It's a remake of a film called Inferno Affairs. It's a Hong Kong film, and if we come anywhere close to what they did in the original, we're going to have a hot property on our hands, because Inferno Affairs is a great piece.

Anthony Anderson

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I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

Alice Walker

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