Zach Anner Quotes
We've all got hurdles we have to overcome, and mine are not necessarily any bigger than anyone else's.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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I have lived a carnal life.
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You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.
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I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.
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I went to the premier of 'Stardust,' which starred Michelle Pfeiffer. I nearly died when I saw her on the red carpet – she's so beautiful.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.
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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
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I've struggled a lot for what I have today.
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I actually got a play from auditioning for something in 'Back Stage' magazine.
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I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.
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I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.
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The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.
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I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.
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We're gonna hunt you down like a mad dog hound and make you pay for the lives you stole.
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Quite frankly, the bible is filled with advice that you'd never, want to follow. "Don't cut your hair on a rainy Thursday because locusts will eat your farm" kind of thing.
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Part of what makes the book bizzare is that Whitman, because he wants to stand for everyone, because he wants to be less a historical person than a marker for democratic personhood, can't really write a memoir full of a life's particularities.
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
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God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.
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If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is. You might never find out that you are useful for all the right reasons - and not all those stupid things that people tell you you're useful for.
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We've all got hurdles we have to overcome, and mine are not necessarily any bigger than anyone else's.
