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To Each His Own. It's One Of Those Things. How You Build Your Familyyou Have To Know What You're Capable Of Handling And How Your Children Will Relate To Each Other. Maybe If You Have One Child And That Child Has A Lot Of Needs, You Realize You Cannot Give More Attention To Another. Sometimes You Just Know As A Parent. We Felt We Could Handle More Children, And We Have A Very Happy, Very Full Home.

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To Each His Own.

Angelina Jolie

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To Each His Own. It's One Of Those Things. How You Build Your Familyyou Have To Know What You're Capable Of Handling And How Your Children Will Relate To Each Other. Maybe If You Have One Child And That Child Has A Lot Of Needs, You Realize You Cannot Give More Attention To Another. Sometimes You Just Know As A Parent. We Felt We Could Handle More Children, And We Have A Very Happy, Very Full Home.

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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.

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

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.

Arabs And Mulims Are Not Terrorists.the World Should Unite Against Israel.

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.

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.

When I Was Growing Up I Never Babysat. I Was Considered To 'punk Rock' To Be Trusted With Kids.

I'm Very Careful With My Emotions, And I Don't Let Them Run Free. If I'm Upset, It's Usually For A Very Good, Very Deep Reason.

Refugees Have Done More For My Heart And My Spirit Than I Can Ever Express In Words.

It's Great To Jump Into Things You're Not Sure Of And You Haven't Done And That Are A Little Scary. That's What We Have To Do, As Artists.

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

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.

Progress Is Slow, It Is Uneven, It Is Fragile And In Some Parts Of The World It Is Being Erased.

With My Family, I'm Trying To Raise Them To Have Respect For All People And Make Friends Around The World And Feel At Home With The World And Really Live A Truly Global Life Because I Think It's What Forms Them And It's Really Important To Me.

They Say It's Better Than Sex. It's So Much Better. It's Amazing.

There Is No Shame In Being A Survivor Of Sexual Violence. The Shame Is On The Aggressor.

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!

Barefoot Or First Thing In The Morning, I Feel Beautiful. I Didn't Always Feel That Way, But I Feel That Way Now. When Somebody Loves You, And When You Make Somebody Else Happy, When Your Presence Seems To Make Them Happy, You Suddenly Feel Like The Most Beautiful Person In The World.

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

I Do Believe In The Old Saying 'what Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger.' Our Experiences, Good And Bad, Make Us Who We Are. By Overcoming Difficulties, We Gain Strength And Maturity.

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

I Think I Should Learn French And Be A Better Cook - Basic, Really Good Life Stuff.

There Is No Greater Pillar Of Stability Than A Strong, Free And Educated Woman, And There Is No More Inspiring Role Model Than A Man Who Respects And Cherishes Women And Champions Their Leadership.

I've Started To Really Become Aware Of The World We Live In, What's Really Going On.

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.

Different Is Good. When Someone Tells You That You Are Different, Smile And Hold Your Head Up And Be Proud.

A Path Appears Is An Insightful Book Focused On How Individuals Can Contribute To Positive Change And The Remarkable People Behind The Organizations That Make It Happen. The Authors' Desire To Motivate People To Support Good Causes, Learn About The Situation In Other Countries, And Find The Best Way To Help Their Fellow Men And Women Is Inspiring.

Family Is What Grounds You.

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

I'm A Very Private Person. I Don't Go Out Much. I'm Home With Kids. I Go To Work. I Don't Really Like Being The Focus Of Attention, Which Is Why I Like Being Behind The Camera More.

I Grew Up As This Very Carefree, Happy Kid Then Things Turned Darker For Me. Maybe It Was Because I Saw That The World Wasn't As Happy A Place As I Had Hoped It Would Be For Me.

What Is It That Turns People Into Artists? It Often Comes From Some Kind Of Pain Or Angst, A Need To Understand Or Express Something. It Very Rarely Comes From Confidence, Being Raised By Parents Who Want To Hear What You Have To Say And Wants To Encourage You.

The Older Ones Recently Saw Mr And Mrs Smith And I Think They Thought That Was The Funniest Thing They'd Ever Seen Because, Of Course, Watching Your Parents Fight As Spies Is Some Strange Sort Of Childhood Fantasy.

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.

We Did Work Together Surprisingly Well, More Than I Thought We Would, Because I Didn't Know Before We Met If We Would Actually Work Together Really Well, And We Had A Great Time.

Working Together

Had A Great Time

I've Been Reckless, But I'm Not A Rebel Without A Cause.

I Grew Up With My Career Being Thrust Upon Me. It Took Me A Long Time To Believe That I Could Do More Than That One Aspect Of Our Business.

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

I Felt I Should Have Been Taught About The Landmine Problem. It Made Me Suddenly Realize Certain Things About The World And How Much I Had To Learn, Like The History Of The People.

I Wasn't Into Fairytales When I Was Little. I Was Of The Generation Of The Earlier Disney Films Where Many Of The Female Characters, With The Exception Of The Maleficent's, Were Not Little Girls That I Admired... The Little Princesses. They Weren't Characters That I Identified With. I Think That's Very Different Now For My Girls And More Recent Films.

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.

I Prefer Directing To Acting. There Is Huge Freedom That Comes From Being Behind The Camera. It Brings A Lot Of Responsibilities As Well, But Is Intensely Rewarding. Particularly The Chance To Help Draw Out The Best In Young Actors.

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