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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My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
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Like the Governor-General, when asked what you enjoy most about the job my tendency is to say "today", because of the insights you get into our nation and because of the privileged contact you have with so many people.
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"Look," I said, "We knew Jason and Becky would be back, the break would end. This isn't a surprise, it's what's supposed to happen. It's what we wanted. Right?" "Is it?" he asked. "Is it what you want?" Whether he intended it to be or not, this was the final question, the last Truth. If I said what I really thought, I was opening myself up for a hurt bigger than I could even imagine. I didn't have it in me. We changed and altered so many rules, but it was this one, the only one when we'd started, that I would break. "Yes," I said.
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Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.
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Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.
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We've all got hurdles we have to overcome, and mine are not necessarily any bigger than anyone else's.
