Anna Kendrick Quotes

I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.

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• The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Mind
  • Find
  • Unconscious

• I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Know
  • Me
  • Wonder

• New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Walking
  • New York
  • Mirrors

• When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Great
  • Movies
  • Guilty

• What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Country
  • Drama

• The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Good
  • Today
  • Pretty

• I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Day

• A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Black
  • Bird

• The Indonesian brands aren't interested in sports people, only movie stars, because they can get more exposure in the media.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • People
  • Movie
  • Sports

• Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Up
  • God
  • Family

• In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Sometimes
  • Politics
  • Promise

• As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening lately, you know what I mean? You have a lot of guys is talented, but at the same time, timeless music is more important to me.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Up
  • Job
  • Know

• I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Life
  • Ambition
  • Journalism

• My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Words
  • Friend
  • Football

• As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Heart
  • Filled
  • Purse

• Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Life
  • Together
  • Giving

• O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights of our most beautiful days!

  

  Alphonse de Lamartine
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• There's only one thing wrong with my wife's face - it shows.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Wife
  • Shows
  • Thing

• I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.

  

  Chris Van Allsburg

• Be the best you can be, but acknowledge that you will make mistakes, and then know which errors to let go of. There will be typos in e-mails, meetings you are late for, daily to-do lists that don't get completed. Cut yourself some slack and, more important, reward yourself along the way.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Important
  • Daily

• While yesteryear I tarriedIn a garden in the south,I met a youth who carriedA rose-bud in his mouth.I gave him chase and caught him,And would not set him free,But held him and besought himTo give the flower to me.He smiled, and broke a petalAnd laid it in my hand-It seared like molten metal,And here is yet the brand.

  

  Enoch Powell
  • Free
  • Hand
  • Garden

• All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.

  

  Eyvind Kang
  • Childhood
  • Emotions
  • Experiences

• I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.

  

  Anna Kendrick