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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.

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Angelina Jolie

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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.

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I Think As A Human Being, As A Mother, As Someone Who Works Internationally, I Needed Desperately To Know A Man Like Louis Zamperini In My Life, To Know That There Is Hope.

This Has Been My Life For Many Years; One Role Feeds The Other. It Is A Joy To Be An Artist, But It Doesn't Mean Very Much Unless That Work Is Somehow Useful In Some Way And Contributes To Others.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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I'd Like To Believe That The People That Have Supported Me In My Work Or Identified With Me In Films, The People That Feel They Know Me, They Do And They Don't Have Misconceptions - They Understand. I Believe That.

I'm Not Somebody That Thinks About Destiny And Fate, But I Don't Walk Away From It When Something Unfolds.

I Think A Woman Is Sexy When She's In Nice Clothes, Flattering Clothes. I Don't Think That Being Half-dressed In Little Half-tops... I Don't Find That Sexy.

It's Been A Lifetime Ambition Of Mine To Play An 007 Villain.

I Had A Lovely Experience Once In Africa Working With The U.n. When A President Of A Country Met Me About Refugee Issues And Said ‘what Do You Do?’ I Said ‘i‘m An Actor.’ He Replied ‘i Heard That Was A Very Difficult Job And Might Not Be The Smartest Job To Do.’ It Was Lovely.

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.

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.

I Learned A Lot From Clint [eastwood], Who's An Extremely Economic Director. I Learned A Lot From Michael Winterbottom, Who Really Gave A Lot Of Trust In The Actors And Allowed Them To Live In The Space Instead Of Trying To Manipulate And Make It Too Set And Too Staged. Working With [robert] De Niro Taught Me A Lot Of Being An Actors' Director And What That Is. I've Learned A Lot From Pretty Much Everybody. Hopefully I've Picked Up Something From Everybody I've Worked With.

I Always Hate Speculation On The News, So I Don't Want To Be Somebody Who Speculates.

I Like The Feeling Of Being Dominated

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

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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.

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.

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We Need Policies For Long-term Security That Are Designed By Women, Focused On Women, Executed By Women Not At The Expense Of Men, Or Instead Of Men, But Alongside And With Men.

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Love Should Be That Person That Inspires You To Be A Better Person.

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If You Ask People What They've Always Wanted To Do, Most People Haven't Done It. That Breaks My Heart.

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 Removed The Window [tattoo] Because, While I Used To Spend All My Time Looking Out Through Windows Wishing To Be Outside, I Now Live There All The Time.

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.

Be Brave, Be Bold, Be Free.

When I Was Little, Like Maleficent, I Was Told That I Was Different - And I Felt Out Of Place, And Too Loud, Too Full Of Fire, Never Good At Sitting Still, Never Good At Fitting In. And Then One Day I Realized Something, Something I Hope You All Realize. Different Is Good.

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.

When Someone Loves You, And When You Make Someone Happy, You Suddenly Start To Feel The Most Beautiful Person In The World.

Make Someone Happy

But We Survived, And We're A Good Family. I Just Don't Want To Dedicate One More Tear, Or Watch My Mother Cry One More Time.

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.

I Think What Children Can Handle And What They're Interested In Is Much Deeper Than People Assume. It's Why Sometimes We Make Things Too Simple For Them.

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

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!

The Interesting Thing For Me Is That Everybody Felt That I Was Really Wild When I Was Unbalanced And Desperate To Communicate Something And Didn't Have A Sense Of Purpose. But I've Never Been So Crazy And Wild As I Am With My Son Or As I Am Now.

We Cannot Close Ourselves Off To Information And Ignore The Fact That Millions Of People Are Out There Suffering.

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.

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.

On The Superficiality Of The Industry: We Are Setting An Example Of What We Think Is Beautiful And You Really Want To Put That Much Make Up On Me?

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.

The Most Upsetting Thing Is That The Us Is A Leader In The World, And If They Don't Sign, Then How Do You Expect To Convince Russian And China And Iran, Pakistan, All These Other Countries, To Sign? They Simply Won't. (the Us Government) Feels It's Against Their Constitutional Right To Bear Arms, Or They've Said That It's Needed In North And South Korea, On The Border. I Don't Think Any Of These Are Good Enough Excuses For The Damage.

I Would Start Drinking Something Terrible If I Were In A Situation Where I Was Surrounded By Lies Or Quiet Or Secrets. It's Just Not A Real Life.

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.

I Always Work With Refugees And I Think They Are The Most Amazing People And It's A Privilege To Spend Time With Them, So I Will Always.

I Had Never Held A Baby In My Life. I Was One Of Those Women - People Would Say, "do You Want To Hold My Baby?" And I Was Like "no ... "

Oh, God, I Struggle With Low Self-esteem All The Time! I Think Everyone Does. I Have So Much Wrong With Me, It's Unbelievable!

Women And Girls Are Bearing The Brunt Of Extremists That Revel In Treating Them Barbarically. This Is Inextricably Linked To Our Overall Failure To Prevent And End Conflicts Worldwide, Which Is Causing Human Suffering On An Unprecedented Level.

To Be In Any Way A Positive Contribution, That's All Anybody Wants To Be. It's All I've Ever Wanted To Be. I Wanted To Be An Artist, Be A Mother. You Want To Feel That In Your Life You've Been Of Use, In Whatever Way That Comes Out.

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

If You Don't Get Out Of The Box You've Been Raised In, You Won't Understand How Much Bigger The World Is. You Might Never Find Out That You Are Useful For All The Right Reasons - And Not All Those Stupid Things That People Tell You You're Useful For.

I Think All Women Go Through Periods Where We Hate This About Ourselves, We Don't Like That. It's Great To Get To A Place Where You Dismiss Anything You're Worried About. I Find Flaws Attractive. I Find Scars Attractive.

I'm Having To Do A Lot To Keep My Clothes On And Not Be Cast In Girlfriend Roles. Some Women Will Say, "i Don't Want To Be A Man - I Want The Opportunities I Can Get As A Woman." Women Have A Certain Sexuality, And I Think Their Bodies Are Beautiful And I'm Not Embarrassed To Explore That In A Film. But There Are Things You Get Offered That Are Vulgar And Violent - Just Like There's A Side Of Me That's Vulgar And Violent.

Because I Am A Bad Girl, People Always Automatically Think That I Am A Bad Girl. Or That I Carry A Dark Secret With Me Or That I'm Obsessed With Death. The Truth Is That I Am Probably The Least Morbid Person One Can Meet. If I Think More About Death Than Some Other People, It Is Probably Because I Love Life More Than They Do.

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.

What's Risky Is Living Your Life And Never Trying For Anything And Never Doing Something Brave And Never Getting Yourself Scared.

I'm Very Happy And Very Excited When My Adrenalin Is Going.

I'm Looking Very Much Forward To Growing Older. I Want To Be An Exhausted Older Woman But With A Very Full Life Behind Me And One Still Going.

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