Anna Chlumsky Quotes
From the very start of all of this, my mom has read the scripts first. And if she liked something, she let me read it. She told our agent what kinds of parts that we would want.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.
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I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.
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'YouKu' means what's best and what's cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosophy really revolves around how to help users, from a massive video database, finds what's best and what's cool.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.
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Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
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We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
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The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
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I think any time anybody says something nasty about you, it's hard to deal with it.
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One minute, she was in the State of Puerto Rico and the next minute, she was in the State of Persistent Vegetables.
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I don't think I'm very much like anyone else, really. I'm sure there are aspects of other actors that I share, but I don't see anybody else and go, 'Damn, they stole my thing.' I'm me, and I like that there are people who have an appreciation for that.
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From the very start of all of this, my mom has read the scripts first. And if she liked something, she let me read it. She told our agent what kinds of parts that we would want.
