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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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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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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I was famous from birth.
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When generally people make race-based jokes to me - even if they're not technically racist, they're sort of based on me being Pakistani or whatever - on Twitter, you know, I block a lot of people who say something weird about my name or something. It does bug me generally, but it is all about context.
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People who are serious about something always make room for it in their schedules. If prayer is important to you, then you'll find time to do it.
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You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.
