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It's Getting Harder To Make Decisions To Work For The Sake Of Working. Like Everybody, I'm Trying To Find Things That Are Extremely Challenging Or Mean Something To Me Deeply. Sometimes Something Like The Tourist Comes Up And It's Just Fun, But It's Not As Easy To Find Projects That I Have To Do. I Have To Be Home And I Have To Do Other Things, But I Don't Have To Work As Much.

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Angelina Jolie

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It's Getting Harder To Make Decisions To Work For The Sake Of Working. Like Everybody, I'm Trying To Find Things That Are Extremely Challenging Or Mean Something To Me Deeply. Sometimes Something Like The Tourist Comes Up And It's Just Fun, But It's Not As Easy To Find Projects That I Have To Do. I Have To Be Home And I Have To Do Other Things, But I Don't Have To Work As Much.

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I Love Great Journalism. I Appreciate It. I Love Good News Stories. I Love Great Books. I Love Great Articles. I Appreciate Them So Much, And They've Been Part Of My Education As A Woman.

I'm Always Doing Something. I Never Shut My Brain Off.

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.

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.

I'm Able To Be Very Effective Because I'm Not A Democrat, I'm Not A Republican. So, I'm Not Tied, And I'd Never Want To Be Tied To Anything, To Some Constituency That I Would Have To Answer To.

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.

Like Most People, You Listen To Yourself On The Phone Or An Answering Machine And You're Like, 'ugh.' So To Do Something With Just Your Voice Is Hard.

Im Extremely Honest, And I Pride Myself On It. I Dont Try To Be Shocking. Im Playful, And I Know When Something Im Saying Is Maybe Shocking, But Its Just The Truth, I Never Wanted To Be Scary To People Or Upsetting To People. I Simply Want To Live The Way I Need To Live.

I Loved Being On The Other Side Of The Camera. I Loved Watching Another Actress In The Spotlight, Do An Extraordinary Job, And I Loved Making Her Beautiful And Interesting, Protecting Her Emotions, And Showing People Her Talent.

I Am A Strong Believer That Without Justice, There Is No Peace. No Lasting Peace, Anyway.

Breast Cancer Alone Kills Some 458,000 People Each Year, According To The World Health Organization, Mainly In Low- And Middle-income Countries. It Has Got To Be A Priority To Ensure That More Women Can Access Gene Testing And Lifesaving Preventive Treatment, Whatever Their Means And Background, Wherever They Live.

I Never Felt Settled Or Calm. You Can't Really Commit To Life When You Feel That.

If Anybody Comes Into My Home And Tries To Hurt My Kids, I've No Problem Shooting Them... I Bought Original, Real Guns Of The Type We Used In Tomb Raider For Security. Brad And I Are Not Against Having A Gun In The House, And We Do Have One. And Yes, I'd Be Able To Use It If I Had To.

I Don't Do Things That Are Comedic. This Is Such A Crazy Idea.

I Felt Beautiful When I Was In Cambodia For Tomb Raider. I Was Sweaty, And My Hair Was Matted And All Over The Place. And I Was Happy And Hot And Accomplishing A Lot And Running Around, And I Could Feel My Heart Beating, And I Felt Beautiful.

I'm Trying To Find Things That Are Extremely Challenging Or Mean Something To Me Deeply.

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 Never Like Being Touched, Ever. People Used To Say I Held My Breath When They Were Hugging Me. I Still Do.

A Word Of Advice, Don't Point Your #$%^&^& Finger At Crazy People

I Hope That Other Women Can Benefit From My Experience. Cancer Is Still A Word That Strikes Fear Into People’s Hearts, Producing A Deep Sense Of Powerlessness. But Today It Is Possible To Find Out Through A Blood Test Whether You Are Highly Susceptible To Breast And Ovarian Cancer, And Then Take Action... It Is My Hope That They, Too, Will Be Able To Get Gene Tested, And That If They Have A High Risk They, Too, Will Know That They Have Strong Options. Life Comes With Many Challenges. The Ones That Should Not Scare Us Are The Ones We Can Take On And Take Control Of.

It Doesn't Take Courage To Drink Too Much And Be Wild Or Jump Around. That Doesn't Take Any Kind Of Boldness, Just Riding A Motorcycle Or Whatever The Idea Of Being Tough Is. Tough Is Having Four Kids. Tough Is Committing To Life And Being Disciplined.

In The Films I've Done Recently, I've Been Learning A Little More About The Side Of Myself That Enjoys Being A Light. I Remember When I Used To Dress In All Black And You'd Say. "just Be Pretty, Hold Your Head Up, Be Proud. Be A Pleasant Person And Don't Cover Yourself So Much With Darkness, Your Need To Be A Little Crazy." Now I Have Nothing Against Anything I've Been In Before, Because I Love All Sides Of Me, But I Have Been Experimenting More With That Lovely Woman Side. In This Age Of Feminism, I Would Hate For The Whole Gentlemen And Ladies Things To Be Lost.

We Have A Choice About How We Take What Happens To Us In Our Life And Whether Or Not We Allow It To Turn Us. We Can Become Consumed By Hate And Darkness, Or We're Able To Regain Our Humanity Somehow, Or Come To Terms With Things And Learn Something About Ourselves.

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.

A Single Journey Can Change The Course Of A Life.

If You Have Problems, It's Something To Apologize For, To Be Embarrassed About, Not To Revel In. It's The Perfectionist In Me...that's Why People Call Me The "bossy Little Thing"-i'm The Bossiest Person Around.

I Can Tell My Children That They Don't Need To Fear They Will Lose Me To Breast Cancer.

The Side Of Fairytales I Don't Like Is That They Always Have Happy Endings, That There's Just Good And Evil, And Things Are Perfect. But Life Is A Little More Complicated, And That's What I Try To Teach My Kids.

I’m Trying To Learn More About International Law To Understand Why We Don’t Have Better Solutions For Conflict - For Dictators Or Aggressors That Are Hurting Or Raping Children Or Using Them As Child Soldiers. Why Can’t We Have An International Community Handle These Things In A Swift, Efficient Manner?

To Be Put Simply Refugees Are Us. And Their Mothers Are Like Us, They Love Their Children The Same, They Laugh, They Dream, And They Are Survivors, They Are Amazing.

I Like The Feeling Of Being Dominated. It Actually Makes Me Feel Safe As Opposed To Challenged.

Anything That Feels Good Couldn't Possibly Be Bad.

Self Indulgence

I Want To Raise My Kids, I Want To Get Them Through Their Teenage Years. ... I Do Love My Work With The Un And With Psvi So If I Can Do More Of That And Be More Effective I Will Do Whatever I Can.

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