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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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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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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'
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I would kill to be on 'Dexter,' and I would double kill to be on 'True Blood.' I would pay them to let me come be a vampire or a vampire victim. No joke!
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Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.
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The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
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Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.
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I can remember going to see the minor league Orioles. Until I was 15 years old, we'd go down with 3,000 people to watch them play the Syracuse Chiefs or the Jersey City Little Giants. That's what passed for Baltimore sports.
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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.
