Anna Held Quotes
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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Humans have 3 percent human error, and a lot of companies can't afford to be wrong 3 percent of the time anymore, so we close that 3 percent gap with some of the technologies. The AI we've developed doesn't make mistakes.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
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It's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.
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To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.
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Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
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Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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I hate management. I hate management. I just do.
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We opposed unlimited detention without trial. We stood up for trial by jury as well. And of course we spoke up for asylum seekers and for the most vulnerable in our society.
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I never imagined I'd be a presenter on television, but I'm happy to put myself out of my comfort zone.
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I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use and leads to nothing.
