Anna Chlumsky Quotes
It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.
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One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
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When you're on top, you're on top.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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I didn't finish high school. I tried to as an adult, but with all this touring, I had to quit.
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Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice.
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I write a lot. I used to write a lot of poetry when I was younger, write for my school newspapers. Also reading is very important because you need to be on your word game if you want to be a lyricist.
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I think it is important to make sure that I have my real life as well, because Hollywood can certainly seem like an alternate reality sometimes.
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It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.
