Anna Kendrick Quotes
My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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You never get every job you want.
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The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
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There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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It's not the moment yet for me to enjoy my time as an actor, and as the time goes by, I feel that I need to push myself harder to pay back for all the good fortune that I have received.
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The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.
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Knowledge is never too dear.
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Women are real. Our reality covers the whole human megillah, from feeble to fierce, from bad to good, from endangered to dangerous. We don't just deserve power, we have it. And power in this and every other society is not just the capacity to benefit those around us.
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Every photo shoot, I'm always asking the makeup artist what they're using on me, and I'll go out and get it.
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I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they meant poor southerners who didn't go to Harvard. I'm not sure why that makes them trash.
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My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.
