Anna Held Quotes
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
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The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.
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I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
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The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
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I think I'm unique to the game 'cause of my versatility.
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You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.
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Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.
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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
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A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
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Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.
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Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
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VW has held a beloved place in American culture. When I graduated from college, many of my friends drove across the country, and most hit the road in a VW van or Bug. Through the years, these cars have represented youth, freedom and quirkiness.
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I love cookbooks for completely different reasons. I love 'The Harry's Bar Cookbook' and Marco-Pierre White's 'White Heat' for their feel. For pure learning, Gray Kunz wrote a great cookbook, 'The Elements of Taste', published in 2001. The first time I read Charlie Trotter's, the Chicago chef's first cookbook, I was blown away.
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None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
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Ricardo Pinto's The Chosen strikes the reader with great force.
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I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.
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Some get a kick from cocaine. I'm sure that if I took even one sniff That would bore me terrifically, too, Yet, I get a kick out of you.
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I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.
