"I've had a wonderful career and I'm very happy to have had all of the opportunities that I've had to tell stories and work for as long as I have. I'm sure there'll be a few more films but I'm happy that I'm able to be selective."

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Angelina Jolie

#Opportunity Quotes #Careers Quotes #Long Quotes

“Someday I'd like to be a father, not of a human child, but something more reasonable.”
“Give people, including yourself, clear permission to make mistakes . . . and to fix the problems. Since nobody's perfect, mistakes should be allowed. Cover-ups shouldn't. Cover-ups create twice the trouble.”
“For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.”
“The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.”
“I don't think actually that kind of ego check or "I could do better" mentality probably serves better in Hollywood, because it's definitely not a meritocracy. You can look at any number of careers and sort of see that they don't really make sense if it was only based on your movies working either creatively or financially. There are people that move ahead without that, and there are people that don't move ahead even if they did have that.”
“If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third.”

Source : Heather Brewer (2008). “Ninth Grade Slays #2: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.140, Penguin
“There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I've been doing so much promotion for this new single.”
“No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.”

Source : David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.195, Random House

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