Anna Biller Quotes
I've always loved movies dealing with the terror of a woman who doesn't really know her husband and finds out that he's a monster. It's one of my favorite plots.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am hooked on Twitter. Not good.
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The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
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It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.
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I have so many photos of me where I'm laughing like a crazy person. I don't know what it is, but I just go with it.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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In cloud-ships the gods are wont to travel, and wise cotters have legends that keep them from certain high peaks at night when it is cloudy, for the gods are not lenient as of old.
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The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.
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I think Dutch people are very sober. I don't know if it's the right word. Like, you have the most famous person walk by some Dutch people, and they're like, 'Oh, hello.' And they maybe take a photo, but most of the time, they'll respect you and leave you alone. And if you go to some other countries they will literally mob you, go crazy.
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When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap.
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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
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If you're going to wear three hats, you'd better grow two more heads.
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I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.
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When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'
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I've always loved movies dealing with the terror of a woman who doesn't really know her husband and finds out that he's a monster. It's one of my favorite plots.
