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 can't even consider the prospect of grandchildren because I don't know if there will be anything left for them on Earth. That's how serious the problem is. We can't drink the water or breathe the air, and we're all dying from some sort of cancer. How many generations can sustain that? It frightens me terribly.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen.
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I didn't have any pets growing up.
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I would love to have more actress friends, but I just don't.
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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.
