Anna Chlumsky Quotes
First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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Typically, there's this perspective among writers - and black writers: there's this idea that there is one person - and maybe beyond writers - among blacks, there is always one person who everyone should go to learn about all things black.
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Something wild can happen to anybody and I caution anybody that walks out on the street, just settle your accounts before you leave the house every day.
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He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")
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I can't sing. Definitely no ambition in that area.
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My first car was a BMW. A white BMW.
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First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.
