Jodie Foster Quotes

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• Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

  Jodie Foster

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Being Yourself

  "Diamonds, Pearls & Stones : Jewels of Wisdom for Young Women from Extraordinary Women of the World". Book by Barbara Warren Holden and Jennifer Read Hawthorne, 2004.

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• There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become. This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more every day.

  Jodie Foster

  Inspiring, Graduation, Beautiful

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• Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

  Jodie Foster

  Live Your Life, May, Matter

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• I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

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  Years, Age, Stones

  "Jodie Foster's Golden Globes acceptance speech: Did she come out? Depends on whom you ask". nationalpost.com. January 14, 2013.

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• Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

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  Things In Life, Essentials, Understood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter.

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  Lonely, Growing Up, Book

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• There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?

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  Doubt, Individual, Carbon

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• If I fail, at least I will have failed my way.

  Jodie Foster

  Way, Failing, My Way

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cruelty might be very human, and it might be very cultural, but it's not acceptable.

  Jodie Foster

  Might, Truthful, Cruelty

  Jodie Foster's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 29, 1989.

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• Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

  Jodie Foster

  Beautiful, People, Looks

  "Jodie Foster's Golden Globes acceptance speech: Did she come out? Depends on whom you ask". nationalpost.com. January 14, 2013.

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• Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.

  Jodie Foster

  Artist, Way, Being An Artist

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• In the end, winning is sleeping better.

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  Sleep, Winning, Ends

  "Jodie Foster: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 14, 2010.

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• Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

  Jodie Foster

  Inspirational, Respect, Love You

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• My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

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  Definitions, Ashamed, Adore

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• How could you ask me to believe in God when there's absolutely no evidence that I can see? I do believe in the beauty and the awe-inspiring mystery of the science that's out there that we haven't discovered yet, that there are scientific explanations for phenomena that we call mystical because we don't know any better.

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  Believe, Mystery, Mystical

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• I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

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  Ideas, People, Wanted

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• I'm an atheist. But I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God. We celebrate pretty much every religion in our family with the kids. They love it, and when they say, 'Are we Jewish?' or 'Are we Catholic?' I say, 'Well, I'm not, but you can choose when you're 18. But isn't this fun that we do seders and the Advent calendar?'

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  Atheist, Fun, Believe

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• 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.

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  Appreciation, Hurt, Knowing

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• I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

  Jodie Foster

  Play, Roles, Lines

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• Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

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  Might, Cruelty, Humans

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• I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

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  Art, Creativity, Responsibility

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• It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

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  War, Being Alone, Interesting

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• It's a tough trick to be able to create an intelligent movie that has socio-political commentary, and also has the emotional and moving stuff, at the same time.

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  Moving, Intelligent, Emotional

  "Comic-Con: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley Talk About Their Characters and the Themes of ELYSIUM". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

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• The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

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  Hard Times, Years, Awkward

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• It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

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  Moving, Giving, Car

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