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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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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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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It's either 'Saw' made for $4 million or 'Star Wars,' 'Star Trek,' 'Guardians of the Galaxy' et cetera being made for $150 million. So the $30 and $40 million films don't get made unless they're maybe 'Ride Along.' But I don't really know why. I don't get paid to know why.
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Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.
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It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.
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For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next.
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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.
