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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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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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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I don't get hung up on weight.
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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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If the past is any guide, what has happened this winter could happen again next winter and the winter after that and so on and so on. What we face is a threat to our whole way of life...The case is now surely overwhelming, there will be no solution to our difficulties which does not include some restriction on the power of the unions.
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Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.
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We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.
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You are alive, but you should enjoy that while you can. I try to keep that same life philosophy of just enjoying the moments that come my way and not be the one that gets in my own way from making the most of the opportunities that I have.
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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.
