Anna Held Quotes

How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.

Anna Held

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• Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.

  

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• Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

  

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• Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

  

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• While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

  

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• People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.

  

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• If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.

  

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• As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.

  

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• Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

  

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• As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.

  

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  • Job
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• It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

  

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• As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

  

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• Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.

  

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• People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.

  

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• I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

  

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• I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.

  

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• What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

  

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• When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.

  

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• How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.

  

  Anna Held
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Water