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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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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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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One of the great things about turning 30 is figuring out how to dress comfortably and still look good.
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Is climbing, as a passion and as a sport, better off now than it was in the past? We can do harder climbs now in faster times - techniques are more refined and equipement more sophisticated - but are we really any better off?
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I always have melodies flowing in my head - whether I'm just at home, at the mall, at a restaurant or wherever. I'm always humming along to the random melodies that form in my head. My friends always ask me, 'What are you singing?' and I'll be like, 'I don't know!'
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Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.
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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.
