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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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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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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When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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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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From a purely craft standpoint, a simple character has a single motivation, while complex characters have two or three or more motivations, at least one of which is in direct conflict with another.
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Many movies about people recovering, moving on, and redeeming themselves are really wonderful and inspiring. But I think the more sentimental ones that are less good make me feel isolated - like, if you can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps like the guys in the movies, there is something wrong with you. That's a shame.
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The only thing I know for sure about the creative process is it always comes back. Magically. When there are no creative juices and nothing is coming to me - if I wait - it comes!
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I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.
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I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.
