Angelina Jolie: Amazon.com Confuses Me!
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Angelina Jolie isn't the wild child she once was -- and she's OK with that.
Describing her younger self as "experimental, bold and a bit nutty," the now 36-year-old actress tells USA Today she was "absolutely self-destructive" early in her career.
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"I think a lot of young people in this business lose their way. You don't know what is of value. You don't know where you are. And you know something's wrong, because it isn't life as it actually is," Jolie explains. "It's like living in some warped reality."
The actress -- who shares six children with partner of six years Brad Pitt, 47 -- finally settled down "once I started to learn about the world and I became grateful for everything that I certainly have. Since going through my first war zone, never have I woken up and not been simply grateful."
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Once she adopted son Maddox in 2002, the In the Land of Blood and Honey director realized there was no going back. "I knew once I committed to Maddox, I would never be self-destructive again," Jolie says. "Now I have five more [kids], so I have to behave."
Given her multiple responsibilities as a mother, lover, actress, director and U.N. ambassador, Jolie has learned how to multitask over the years. "I always Christmas shop early in case we have to travel somewhere," she says.
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"Brad and I were on Amazon.com for the first time a week ago. But we got lost. After an hour, we just shut it off," she tells USA Today. "My brain is too scattered and the wires go in different directions. I'll stick to catalogs."
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11@Ameerah Actually I support Jolie's films -- I always have. I'm a feminist. I've seen every one of her films. I want strong roles for women. I mean that. I'm not jealous -- I'm critical. It's good to be critical of people in power. I don't think blind worship is useful. Whatever. To be smart here you have to trip over yourself. F%^t it. If I had the incredible awesome privileges that these people have, I'd be clear. I'd make sure I didn't act like Amazon was confusing needlessly-- because we're supposed to trust this woman made sense of a war in her latest movie. If she can't operate Amazon, she needs to stay out of basic politics.
You people are such haters- no matter what she says you will never be happy with it- says more about you than it does her.
Yeah, her brain is just too special -- all the "wires" are so "scattered" that it's hard for her to look under a particular category and type in an item. I'm sick of her constant self-mythology.
also, isn't it a bit backward to find your way because of children, rather than welcoming them because you have realized what "is of value"?
how are catalogs more conducive to productivity or healthy for family than online shopping websites?
ha ha, that's funny Linda!
Apparently, respect for someone else's marriage is also a confusing subject for her. Like father, like daughter.
dumb as a stick.
I feel the same way about Ebay!
i love her,for being an honest person about her past.. i bow her for being a brave woman.. accepted her mistakes and now put in the right track. i believe everybody have the right to have second chances. i wish her and her family a happy life bcoz they're such a generous people. :D)
I love her! I just think she is great in every way...