Anna Holmes Quotes
My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color were what they cared about most in the world.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.
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I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
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It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.
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Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I didn't even know I could act until I auditioned at the casting call for the part of Mia.
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A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.
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There's something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every single gay parent desperately, passionately wanted to be a parent. That's neat, and I hope we can keep it that way.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
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Design accelerates the adoption of new ideas. And many of these ideas are important for designers to show that there is a way. When you see things through that lens, you realize it applies to any industry and any form of design.
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I'm not classically trained or anything, but I'll rip up a dance floor.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
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For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.
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An injured lion still wants to roar.
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By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made.
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When people say good things about me, judge me based on my behaviour and work, that makes me happier than a film's success would.
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I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It's incredible - Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel Merman, Jr., was, to me, one of the coolest feminist things.
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My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.
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When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!
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The bar for a chief executive of a public corporation to repudiate a United States president is extraordinarily high. Corporate leaders aren't given their power, prestige, responsibility, and nine-figure pay packages to use the corner office as their personal soapbox.
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My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color were what they cared about most in the world.
