Anna Held Quotes
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
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It's always good to play tennis with a better player to bring out the best in you.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
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I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.
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There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
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Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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If i were a little braver i would have asked her something like, 'Do you think Kickass: the movie is a comedy in the traditional, classical sense?' and we could have that conversation and it would lead to other conversations during the flat and lonely times.
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He [Earl Scruggs] was really cool because he was very quiet, and he wouldn't say much, but then he would come out with a quip that was like so perfect and so brilliant, very smart.
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I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.
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I'm kind of a Midwestern snob. I think we're just nice people and have a great work ethic.
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Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.
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You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.
