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.

Anna Kendrick

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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

• I was never as famous as all these kids. There was no social media. We weren't celebrity-obsessed as a culture. I feel like these kids are under a crazy microscope; they're basically brands. And they eventually implode and act out. They need a break, and they're not getting one.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Culture
  • Crazy

• 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

• I'm that sort of weird guy who will watch a movie almost every day if I can.

  

  John Krasinski
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Weird

• 'I distrusted him from the start! Still, who could imagine such protean depravity?' Bunderwal, the supercargo, concurred. 'Cugel, while plausible, nonetheless is a bit of a scoundrel.'

  

  Jack Vance

• The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable.

  

  Jacob Lew
  • People
  • Democracy

• After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• I can't sit still for long and need creative outlets and think you should try different things. I mean, if you're a musician all of your life, you gotta try different things. I really believe you can have it all.

  

  Brian Fallon
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Different

• 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