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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Many people think making a film about history... about war... about the Holocaust, it might be heavy, dramatic and traumatic. I don't see things like that... you can find irony everywhere. It's how I look at life.
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We're moved by emotions and characters and stories. We love that.
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On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.
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Slightly overweight, older than the typical groupie and definitely on the frumpy side. All of which.
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Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
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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.
