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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.

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Angelina Jolie

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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.

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That Just Sounds So Funny, A-list. Really, I'm A Mom, And That's How I'm Going To Be All My Life.

Children Teach You So Much. You Take Another Look At Life When You Have A Child. Everything Is New Again For You. They Ground You.

I've Often Felt Unattractive Or Different Looking. As I've Grown Up, I've Felt More Comfortable In My Own Skin. It May Sound Cliche, But When You Feel Beautiful And Strong On The Inside, It Shows On The Outside.

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.

People Always Slow Down For A Train Wreck. It's Like Junk Food. If You Don't Feel Good About Yourself, You Want To Read Crap About Other People, Like Gossip In High School. You Don't Understand Why It's There, But Somehow It Makes A Lot Of People Feel Better.

I Like To Hide Behind The Characters I Play.

Cause A Little Trouble. It’s Good For You.

Most Nights, Someone Ends Up In Our Bed. The Kids Do Knock Before Entering. We've At Least Got That Part Down Because Mommy And Daddy Need Some Space.

I Need More Sex, Ok? Before I Die I Wanna Taste Everyone In The World.

I Hide My Emotions Mainly Because You Don't Want Somebody To Know That You Feel Sorry For Them, Because They Will Feel Worse, Or Because You Don't Want Someone To Know Or See Your Fear. If Someone Like A Sick Kid Or A Burn Victim Sees Your Fear, They Respond To How You Respond. And If You Show Them It's Terrible, They Will Get Upset. It's Something I've Learned Over The Years.

I Take My Kids To School And If I Go To Work They Visit Me On Set, I Come Home. I Have Dinner With My Family. I Have Breakfast With My Family. I Have A Very Solid, A Very Warm Home. I'm Fortunate.

I Used To Think I Was Unstable, Because I Had This Thirst For Something. I Could Never Figure Out What It Was. I Couldn’t Sleep At Night, And I Always Wanted To Be Somewhere Else. I Have A Window Tattooed, This Little Box, And It’s Because Wherever I Was, I Wanted To Be Somewhere Else. And, I Always Saw Myself, Wherever I Was In Life, Staring Out The Window.

I Want To Be Outspoken! I Want To Say My Opinions And I Hope They’re Taken In The Right Way. I Don’t Want To Stop Being Free ... And I Won’t...

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

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 Have Tatoos, And I Do Wear Leather, But There Are Other Sides Of Me, That My Film Express.

When You Have Kids It's Nice To Have A Place Where They Can Always Return To And Some Place Where They Will Grow Up In, But I Never Had That. I'm Not Attached To Things And Places. I Like That We [the Family] Keep Moving. It's A Nomadic Life, And I Think That's A Great Life. I'm Excited When We Take Our Kids To A New Country And They Don't Just Immediately Look For The Comforts Of Home. They Blend Into That Country. Send Them To Any Place In The World And They Won't Be Scared. They'll Just Feel Like They Can Make Friends There.

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.

Usually All My Tattoos Came At Good Times. A Tattoo Is Something Permanent When You've Made A Self-discovery, Or Something You've Come To A Conclusion About.

I'm Not A Single Mom With Two Jobs, Trying To Get By, Every Day. I Have Much More Support Than Most Women, Around This World, And I Have The Financial Means To Have A Home And Help With Care And Food.

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

If Being Sane Is Thinking There's Something Wrong With Being Different, I'd Rather Be Completely #$%^&^& Mental.

Being Different

Anytime I Feel Lost, I Pull Out A Map And Stare. I Stare Until I Have Reminded Myself That Life Is A Giant Adventure, So Much To Do, To See.

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 Love Doing Lesbian Love Scenes. Before I Did My Lesbian Scenes In Gia, I Talked To Actresses Who Said Love Scenes Are Easier With Another Woman Than A Man. Bound's Gina Gershon And Jennifer Tilly Said They'd Lie There And Discuss The Sale At Barney's Between Takes.

To Be Intimate With A Married Man, When My Own Father Cheated On My Mother, Is Not Something I Could Forgive. I Could Not Look At Myself In The Morning If I Did That. I Wouldn't Be Attracted To A Man Who Would Cheat On His Wife.

I Think Every Teenager Is A Hero. When We Are Young We Feel So Much Pain. Go To School Is Like Going To War, People Let You Down All The Time. Sometimes It's Very, Very Difficult To Stay Strong, But You Have To.

I Make It A Point Not To Buy Certain Magazines, Not Because I Am Against Tabloids Or Things Like That, But I Want To Fill My Mind With Valid Issues In The World.

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.

To Do Something Good, It Has To Scare You.

He's Amazing. He's A Really Dedicated Father. I Feel Very Blessed That Every Day I Wake Up And I Live With My Favourite People In The World, As Well As My Best Friend.

It's Better To Have Nobody, Than To Have Someone Who Is Half There, Or Doesn't Want To Be There

There Doesn't Need To Be A God For Me.

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.

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

Some People Go Shopping - I Cut Myself.

This Script Was Just So Much Smarter Than Usual And I'm Just Fascinated By Human Behavior.

I Went Through A Period When I Felt My Film Characters Were Having More Fun Than I Was. It Might Partly Explain Why I Ended Up Tattooed Or Doing Certain Extreme Things In My Life.

I Think If You Make A Good Movie People Walk Away Arguing.

I Have So Much In My Life. I Want To Be Of Value To The World.

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