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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 Think I Connect

Angelina Jolie

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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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Loss Of A Child

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It's Just Such A Freeing Thing To Set These Great Challenges For Yourself, To Travel, To Learn More About The World, To Just Go Out There And Get Crazy And Get Free And Get Strong.

I've Realized That Being Happy Is A Choice.

I Never Thought I'd Have Children; I Never Thought I'd Be In Love, I Never Thought I'd Meet The Right Person. Having Come From A Broken Home - You Kind Of Accept That Certain Things Feel Like A Fairy Tale, And You Just Don't Look For Them.

The Cost Of Testing For Brca1 And Brca2, At More Than $3,000 In The United States, Remains An Obstacle For Many Women.

Some People Go Shopping - I Cut Myself.

It's The Greatest Thing That Ever Happened In My Life, My Son.

I Find Flaws Attractive. I Find Scars Attractive.

I Didn't Really Want To Live, So Anything That Was An Investment In Time Made Me Angry... But Also I Just Felt Sad. When The Hopelessness Is Hurting You, It's The Fixtures And Fittings That Finish You Off.

I'm Just Glad I Was Able To Return To Some Of That Innocence And Beauty I Had As A Child When I Started My Own Family, And My Children Brought Me Back Some Of That Spirit.

I Am So In Love With My Brother Right Now!

I Love To Put On Lotion. Sometimes I'll Watch Tv And Go Into A Lotion Trance For An Hour. I Try To Find Brands That Don't Taste Bad In Case Anyone Wants To Taste Me.

I Think I Was Probably Able To Flip Characters In My Head As If I Was Playing Different Roles In Order To Write The Different People Because You Kind Of Have To Be One Person, And Inhabit Him And Write From His Voice And Be Her And Write Her Voice. So I Think That Helped.

Be Brave, Be Bold, Be Free.

Happy Endings Are Just Stories That Haven't Finished Yet.

I Always Play Women I Would Date.

Children Should Be Allowed To Express Themselves In Whatever Way They Wish Without Anybody Judging Them Because It Is An Important Part Of Their Growth... Society Always Has Something To Learn When It Comes To The Way We Judge Each Other, Label Each Other. We Have Far To Go.

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.

Violence Against Women And Lack Of Intervention And Man's Inhumanity To Man And This Kind Of Atrocities Are Going On. These Are Big Issues Of Our Times, We Must Speak About Them, We Must Learn How To Better Understand How These Things Happen So We Can Address Them.

Inhumanity To Man

I'm Somebody Who Works Within Cambodia, With Cambodians. I Work Alongside The Artists And Society To Work From Within, So That Is The Focus, And From That I Hope Everybody Who Believes In Democracy, In Certain Freedoms, Will Get Louder, Will Grow Their Voices.

When Those Who Have The Opportunity To Speak To Those Politicians They Must Do So And If One Doesn't Have That Opportunity To Speak Directly, They Can Still Speak Indirectly And It Can Be Heard.

I Want To Take Time To Understand Life. I Want To Travel. I Want To Be A Better Person, A Better Mom. I Want To Do Something Good With My Life.

Working With [robert] De Niro Taught Me A Lot About Being An Actor's Director.

If We Cannot End The Conflict, We Have An Inescapable Moral Duty To Help Refugees And Provide Legal Avenues To Safety.

People Will Say What They Want To Say, And It's Okay. And My Life Will Go On, And I Need To Focus On My Life. So, Do I Need To Defend That I'm A Decent Woman? I Sure Hope I Don't. I Know I Am.

We Cannot Look At Syria, And The Evil That Has Arisen From The Ashes Of Indecision, And Think This Is Not The Lowest Point In The World's Inability To Protect And Defend The Innocent.

I Dropped My Pants In A Tattoo Parlor In Amsterdam. I Woke Up In A Waterbed With This Funky-looking Dragon With A Blue Tongue On My Hip. I Realized I Made A Mistake, So A Few Months Later I Got A Cross To Cover It. When My Pants Hang Low, It Looks Like I'm Wearing A Dagger!

I Think That We Come To Love Not By Finding The Perfect Person, But By Learning To See An Imperfect Person Perfectly. Raise Kids. Have A Good Life. Be A Good Friend. And Try To Be Completely Who You Are.

Imperfect Person

I'd Love To Have A Great Relationship With My Father. And Unfortunately... I Don't.

Great Relationship

No, No, No, I've Just Grown Up Too Much To Be Hurt By What People's Opinion Of My Love Life Is.

I Do Not Feel Any Less Of A Woman. I Feel Empowered That I Made A Strong Choice That In No Way Diminishes My Femininity.

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 Don't Believe In Guilt, I Believe In Living On Impulse As Long As You Never Intentionally Hurt Another Person, And Don't Judge People In Your Life. I Think You Should Live Completely Free.

It's Very Important That People Understand That For Refugees To Come Into The Usa Is Very Difficult. What Upsets Me About The Whole Situation Is That People Don't Know The Difference Between A Migrant And A Refugee; They Don't Have Respect For What People Are Coming From - The People Who Against It - And They Have Completely Forgotten This Is What Built Our Country, The Diversity. When It Is Put Forward That Masses Of People Are Dangerous, And The Actual Numbers And The Situation Are Proven To Be Completely The Opposite Of The Way They're Presented Publicly, It's Horrible.

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.

A Single Journey Can Change The Course Of A Life.

Our Family May Seem Extraordinary In Some Magazines Or Something, But At Home It's Not. We're Really Just A Very Loving Family. We're Very Close, And We Don't Read Magazines. We Just Kind Of Go To Work And Come Home. We Try To Keep A Sense Of Reality Into Their Lives. What's Truly Real, Not Hollywood Real.

I Respect All Religions. What I Don't Respect Is When People Use Religion To Attack Others. I've Met People Across The World, In The Middle Of Nowhere, Who Are Just Trying To Survive And All They Have Is Religion. In Some Why, It Helps Them, And I Wouldn't Take It Away From Them. There Are Also People Who Use To To Hate And Kill. I Don't Consider Them Religious People.

To Do Something Good, It Has To Scare You.

As A Director, I Hoped That I Was Able To Help The Actors By Giving Them The Space And The Respect They Need And The Trust. I Gave Them What I Always Felt I Needed When I Was Working.

I'm Hopeful That Increased Awareness Of The Issues In Africa Will Bring About A New Wave Of Progress And Activism Among Young People Everywhere.

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