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Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

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Angelina Jolie
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: June 4
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I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.
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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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I've told Billy [Bob Thornton] if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.
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I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.
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I thought I'd become a funeral director when I wasn't going to be an actor. I thought I would be good at helping some people with the grieving process and with trying to get them to talk about and understand who this person was.
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I'm a fairy. I'd come and hear, How was your day, honey? And I'd be like, I was a fairy. I don't know.
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I think every teenager is a hero. When we are young we feel so much pain. Go to school is like going to war, people let you down all the time. Sometimes it's very, very difficult to stay strong, but you have to.
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