Anna Faris Quotes

I like the idea of sort of playing quieter roles, which would be refreshing for a minute. It is exhausting being really loud and obnoxious.

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• They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Effort
  • First
  • Step

• But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Always
  • Succeed
  • Doctor

• At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Amazing
  • Dinner
  • Meet

• The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Believe
  • Done
  • You

• My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Important
  • Family
  • Dad

• If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Evil
  • Doing

• If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Late
  • Slow

• We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute. It's got to stop somewhere.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Power
  • Stop
  • Project

• I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Action
  • Lost

• It's kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Song
  • Night

• There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • May
  • Guitar
  • Feedback

• The fact that they're a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that it's National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Group
  • Month

• My name is Frances Louise McDormand, formerly known as Cynthia Ann Smith. I was born in Gibson City, Ill., in 1957. I identify as gender-normative, heterosexual, and white-trash American. My parents were not white trash. My birth mother was white trash.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • American
  • Mother
  • Parents

• The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Sound
  • Influence
  • Hip Hop

• I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, 'Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.'

  

  Mako
  • Up
  • Music
  • Why

• I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Idea
  • Africa
  • Nonsense

• Among the group of people waiting at the fortress was a schoolgirl in a brown and yellow uniform holding a green eiderdown quilt and, by the loop at its neck, a red hot-water bottle.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • People
  • Water
  • Waiting

• The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • History
  • Culture

• The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned, most English names for things were silly. The word that they used for quicksand was a deep grunt that translated roughly to "uh-oh.

  

  Ridley Pearson
  • Boys
  • Silly
  • Concerned

• When you have these surprise breakout films that do well, that have good performances in them, it puts a lot of pressure on the Academy to recognize those projects, so it's more of a conversation about what is greenlit.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Conversation
  • Surprise

• Nothing really scares me, to be honest.

  

  Billie Eilish

• At Accenture, we are visibile, and I feel when you are visible - when people are watching you - you need to speak up.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • People
  • Up

• If you don't have the love and support of your family, you need to find someone out there who you can confide in and share your concerns and worries with. And someone who can lift your spirits and make you feel valuable and strong and powerful.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • Family
  • Strong
  • Support

• I like the idea of sort of playing quieter roles, which would be refreshing for a minute. It is exhausting being really loud and obnoxious.

  

  Anna Faris