Anna Kendrick Quotes
I'm glad I got to do 'The Last Five Years' and 'Into the Woods,' which are both shows that I just don't think I could have the stamina to do them eight times a week. I just have so much respect for the women who do these vocal roles eight times a week. They're so challenging.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders.
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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
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The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.
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I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.
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I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!
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I think lots of men are like that. We sort of get dressed by our girlfriends.
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And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.
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I want 'Scars to Your Beautiful' to reach different types of women. The girl I am talking about, it's me, it's you - it's every girl who has struggled with feeling not good enough. I want to talk about all the different extremes that girls go through to feel beautiful.
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Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.
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Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.
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In this century of hyper-postmodern ideals, with the digital future, we're segmented into different people, places, and things in a constant state of change.
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I'm glad I got to do 'The Last Five Years' and 'Into the Woods,' which are both shows that I just don't think I could have the stamina to do them eight times a week. I just have so much respect for the women who do these vocal roles eight times a week. They're so challenging.
