Anna Chlumsky Quotes
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
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No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
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If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.
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My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.
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Growing up, I saw my mother cry exactly once. The morning of her brother's funeral. One long tear ran down her cheek through her make up until she caught it near her mouth and patted it dry with a tissue she pulled from inside her sleeve.
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When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.
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Kissing Macaulay Culkin was like kissing a brother. It was really no big deal.
