Anna Chlumsky Quotes
When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
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I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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What you see is what you get.
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It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.
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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
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There are curveballs that are thrown at you, and you just have to get over it and forgive... if you believe you're perfect, and you don't believe in forgiveness, you're not meant to be married.
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I had almost no education. I hardly went to school. I’d be away for weeks doing films, then I’d come back and have no idea what they were talking about. Of course the other kids loved it: ‘You may be a well-known star but you don’t know how to do algebra.’ It was a nightmare.
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When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.
