Anna Chlumsky Quotes
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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.
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It's natural for players to be relaxed, so you have to be there to say, 'You have to do it again and again and again.'
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You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.
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The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.
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But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that we had collected and assigned them to characters who would be played by actors.
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Show business got really tainted for me.
