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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Once a Raider, always a Raider.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.
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I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. The people who are in charge of what people see or hear are afraid. What you hear on top 40 or what you see on BET or MTV is not a fair representation of what is really going on...
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When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.
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I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.
