Anna Held Quotes
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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My real name is Nils and Booboo is a childhood nickname. It's not two words or two capital B's, it's B-o-o-b-o-o.
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Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.
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Comparing the Trump administration to the Nazis may be a stretch, but many business leaders are concerned that stirring up deep-seated racial and nationalist animosities could be destabilizing, leading to riots, property damage and widespread civil unrest reminiscent of the late 1960s.
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As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
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The only people who put iced tea in Jack Daniel's bottles is the Clash baby!
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Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
