Anna Biller Quotes
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
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When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
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I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.
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Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.
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Yes, I'm supposed to go back to New York to do Geraldo, and we're going to be doing The Tonight Show.
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Timeless comes to mind. When you listen to it, you can't tell what year the thing was made. And you don't even care.
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Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.
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When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!
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I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.
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Men's requirements of women are impossible and ridiculous and so destructive.
