Anna Chancellor Quotes
I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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Well who's black and what is a black person?
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
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Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism.
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There will be a time when everyone on the team is going to contribute to winning a pennant.
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“This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a whole paragraph does not appeal to the reader. In most cases he will be able to go on and later he may return to the parts which he skipped.”
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But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people. You can't understand why they do what they do. You just have to accept a little mystery, Ben. People are mysterious, the world is mysterious. You can't know everything. You're not supposed to. This isn't a history book. It's just the world. It's a messy place.
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I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.
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I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.
