Anna Held Quotes
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
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We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved.
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'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.
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Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.
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Understanding what the framers meant can help us. But alone it cannot be enough.
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I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't.
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I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.
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Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
