Anna Chlumsky Quotes
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Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
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I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.
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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.
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Hindi film and southern film industries are doing well when it comes to technical know how. By and large, they are pretty similar and are close knit industries.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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When it's a bad movie you want to release it quietly. You try to keep it a secret like an STD.
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I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, 'utilitarian.' I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit.
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I love grey. My mom told me that when I was younger, I would get mildly depressed when it was grey all the time. I'd be darker when it was dark out. But as an adult, I really love it.
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I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
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I could make up characters till the cows came home. Plot's what hard. Very hard.
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I made myself a little angry before beam. That's the best way to do beam. It's important to fuel yourself with some devastating things, but I also realized that if I daydream about doing well and having this silver medal, it's more motivating than focusing on the negatives. So I learned to focus on the positive.
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'Northern Exposure.' I loved that show; I loved the way it was able to have episodes where somebody finds a woolly mammoth, he calls the museum in New York, they send a guy out, and the mammoth's gone because someone ate it. To me, that was everything I ever wanted to do. That show mixed emotion, humor and the surreal all at once.
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Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.
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Envy is a surefire party killer.
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Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. That was the stuff that really got me into music. Song writing wise, bands like Alkaline Trio were very important to me for beginning to write songs.
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I don't have a Twitter account.
