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

• 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
  • Cool

• 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

• They draw back into themselves, and are thrown back on their own bodies for gratification. The men become narcissistic and uncertain of the power of any woman, no matter how strange and beautiful, to arouse their desire, but the women remain continually receptive to male advances.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• As chairman of the tax-writing House Ways & Means Committee, I continue to be inspired by President Reagan's 1985 national address to the American people as he challenged them to join him in boldly reforming the broken, complex tax code.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • People
  • Writing
  • American

• When somebody says, 'Action,' I act. When they say, 'Cut,' that's my job. I've done it.

  

  James Callis
  • Done
  • Job
  • Action

• I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.

  

  Amy Adams
  • Apology

• I remember so well the day that you came into my life. You asked for my name, you had the most beautiful smile.

  

  Gary Valenciano
  • Life
  • Smile
  • Name

• Wayne Curtis is one of our very best writers!

  

  David Adams Richards
  • Writers
  • Wayne

• 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