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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Kurt Cobain OD'd on heroin before committing suicide, but he also OD'd on fame. Cobain was like Basquiat: They both wanted to be famous, and were brilliant enough to make it happen. But then what? Drug addicts kill themselves trying to get that feeling they got from their first high, looking for an experience they'll never get again. In his suicide note, Cobain asked himself, "Why don't you just enjoy it?" and then answered, "I don't know!" It's amazing how much of a mindfuck success can be.
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I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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.
