“Normal is not something to aspire to, it is something to get away from.”

— Jodie Foster

As quoted in Diamonds, Pearls & Stones : Jewels of Wisdom for Young Women from Extraordinary Women of the World (2004) edited by Jennifer Read Hawthorne and Barbara Warren Holden, p. 6

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American actor, film director and producer 1962

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