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I'd Go From Film To Film And Almost Detach From One World And Jump In Another. I Was Living As These People And Not Having A Self. I Didn't Know Who I Was. And Things Just Get Really Dark.

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Angelina Jolie

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I'd Go From Film To Film And Almost Detach From One World And Jump In Another. I Was Living As These People And Not Having A Self. I Didn't Know Who I Was. And Things Just Get Really Dark.

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People Will Always Say All Sorts Of Stuff. Let Them. I'm Enjoying My Life

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Now They Can Do All These Magic Things With Computers. So You Think You Get To Do Something In A Movie And You Find Out You Don't Get To Really Do It.

It's Angering That Not Everybody Has Signed This Treaty To Ban Landmines. It's Disgusting, It Really Is, Because It Is Fact That (mines) Hurt A High Percentage Of Civilians. They're Not Effective In Any Other Real Way. They've Enough Weapons For War.

If I Think More About Death Than Some Other People, It Is Probably Because I Love Life More Than They Do.

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It's Just Person After Person In Every Different Country That Has A Life That I Can’t Even Imagine And Has Gone Through Horror That I Can’t Even Imagine.

I Think I Connect To People Who Could Be Written Off As Wild Or Dark, Or Who Are Just Full Of Fire And Looking For A Place To Put That Fire. It's An Important Lesson To Learn, And It's Something I Did Learn: You Live On Behalf Of Others And You're Happier And You Have Purpose. And You Have A Great Excuse To Have All That Fire.

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I Realized That Very Young - That A Life Where You Don't Live To Your Full Potential, Or You Don't Experiment, Or You're Afraid, Or You Hesitate, Or There Are Things You Know You Should Do But You Just Don't Get Around To Them, Is A Life That I'd Be Miserable Living, And The Only Way To Feel That I'm On The Right Path Is Just To Be True To Myself, Whatever That May Be, And That Tends To Come With Stepping Out Of Something That's Maybe Safe Or Traditional.

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When I Get Logical, And I Don't Trust My Instincts - That's When I Get In Trouble.

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.

It May Sound Cliché, But When You Feel Beautiful And Strong On The Inside, It Shows On The Outside.

I Just Started To See The World As It Really Is And It Completely Shocked Me And Changed My Opinion On Everything.. On Life And My Values And Certainly My Own Sense Of Self.

To Actually Feel Like You've Done Something Good With Your Life And You're Useful To Others Is What I Was Always Wanting, And Was Always Looking For.

Every Character Is A Part Of You And A Part Of The Character That You Are Going To Evolve Into That You Are Not Yet.

When Other Little Girls Wanted To Be Ballet Dancers I Kind Of Wanted To Be A Vampire.

For Whatever Reason, I Don't Know Why, But Cambodians Learned Something In Their Suffering And Their Struggle That We Have Lost Touch With.

Save One-third, Live On One-third, And Give Away One-third

If You Can Imagine The Area And The Land In Cambodia, I Mean There Are Hardly Any Roads In Big Parts Of The Country. The Roads They Have, In The Rainy Season, Become Just Mud. So, If You’re Somebody That Has Just One Leg, Or Blind With No Arms And You Have Children And You’re Trying To Work, And Earn Some Money, And Take Care Of Your Home, It’s Hard Enough To Be A Parent And Do All Of That Normally.

Like Every Mother, My Wish - Every Birthday - Is For My Children To Stay Healthy (and) For My Family To Remain Healthy.

I Don't See Myself As Beautiful, Because I Can See A Lot Of Flaws. People Have Really Odd Opinions. They Tell Me I'm Skinny, As If That's Supposed To Make Me Happy.

I Guess That I've Always Wanted To Be A Bond Villain.

I Was Absolutely Never Going To Get Pregnant. I Never Felt That It Was The Right Thing To Do. Now I Wouldn't Trade That Experience For The World. It Taught Me A Lot About Life, Just The Process Of It, And Now We Have Three Other Beautiful Children That Wouldn't Otherwise Be Here.

You'd Think, 'what If I Make A Mistake Today, I'll Regret It'. I Don’t Believe In Regret, I Feel Everything Leads Us To Where We Are And We Have To Just Jump Forward, Mean Well, Commit And Just See What Happens.

I Don't Need Any Crutches In Order To Concentrate. As A Child I Learned That You Must Be Ready Because I'd Be Yelled At More Than Other People And It Would Always Be My Fault. I Learned That To Be Professional Is Your Number-one Priority. The Art Comes Second. You Learn That, In Order To Give Your Best Performance, You Have To Be A Good Technician, Which Means Never Allowing Negative Influences Affect Your Performance.

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.

Of Course {i'm Bisexual}. If I Fell In Love With A Woman Tomorrow, Would I Feel That It's Okay To Want To Kiss And Touch Her? If I Fell In Love With Her? Absolutely! Yes!

Life Comes With Many Challenges. The Ones That Should Not Scare Us Are The Ones We Can Take On And Take Control Of.

I Usually Make Up Stories For My Kids.i Like To Tell Them Stories And Make Up Any Kind Of Crazy To Involve Them In Characters. The Kind Of Fairytales I Don't Like Are The Ones With Happy Endings, Where There's Just Good And Evil And Things Are Perfect. I Think When There's A Good Story For Children It Has A Moral Tale, So That's What I Try To Teach My Kids.

Everyone Can Help. We Can Educate Ourselves And Our Children About Other Countries And Cultures.

The Life Changing Moment For Me What The First Time I Went To A War Zone And That Was Sierra Leone. I Took Two Weeks, Eleven Years Ago And I Went. I Wasn't An Ambassador Or Anything I Just Asked To Go And I Was Allowed To Go. It Was Like Someone Smacked Me In The Face.

I Became An Actress Because My Mom Wanted Me To Become An Actress. It Took Me Until My Mid-30s To Realize I Actually Didn’t. I Actually Wanted To Write And Direct And Be More Involved In Politics And Humanitarian Issues.

The Mind Wants To Forget Because It Weighs So Much On The Heart And Soul. I Am Tired Of Crying And Feeling So Helpless. I Want To Breathe Again -just For A Little While.

It's Hard No To Work, So I Find A Way To Put Myself Back To Work. And I Think It's Important, In Between Projects, For Me To Sit Down With Who I've Just Become And Allow Her To Continue To Evolve And Find A Home Inside Me Before I Go And Become Somebody Else. But I Think I Also Need To Learn To Relax And Not Prepare Too Much, Just Enjoy Life. I Notice That My Characters Go Out To Dinner And Have Fun And Take These Great Trips, But I Spend So Much Time On Their Lives, I Don't Have Much Of A Personal Life Of My Own. I Have To Sort Of Remember To Fill Out That Little Notebook On Me.

Love - Is When You Wish All The Best To The People You Love, When You Put Their Interests And Well-being Above Their Own. Always.

Just Start Off With The Same Goals In Mind. If You Have The Same Values, Same Goals Then You'll Be On Track For The Same Future.

When I Was Growing Up I Wanted To Adopt, Because I Was Aware There Were Kids That Didn't Have Parents. It's Not A Humanitarian Thing, Because I Don't See It As A Sacrifice. It's A Gift. We're All Lucky To Have Each Other.

If You Don't Get Out Of The Box You've Been Raised In, You Won't Understand How Much Bigger The World Is.

I Always Felt Caged, Closed In, Like I Was Punching At Things That Weren't There. I Always Had Too Much Energy For The Room I Was In.

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.

It's A Natural Thing For A Child To Lose A Parent. I Lost My Mom Too Young But It Happened. And I'm Happy She's Out Of Pain, 'cause I Love Her And She's My Friend.

I Think I'll Be Working A Lot Less As I Get Older

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