Anna Chlumsky Quotes
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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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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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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Self-sufficiency is vitally important to my self-respect. I never wanted to rely on my parents in that way, because I knew that if I got used to it, I'd be reliant all my life.
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Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
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A curious paradox: people have only the narrowest private interest in mind when they act, yet they are at the same time more than ever determined in their behavior by the instincts of the mass. ... The diversity of individual goals is immaterial in face of the identity of the determining forces.
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People need to stand up, women need to stand up for each other and say, "No you can't kick this person like they're a dog. You can disagree with someone politically, you can have arguments, definitely privilege needs to be discussed in real productive and valid ways. But it's not real criticism if it's just like, "you're a disgusting bad person."
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I want to save my people. That is the purpose of my life.
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I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.
