Anna Chancellor Quotes
Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
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I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.
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I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good.
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Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.
