Anna Kendrick Quotes

I don't usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something.

Anna Kendrick

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• I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Child

• I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Film
  • Interested
  • Student

• This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Think

• The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Power
  • Political
  • Happiness

• If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • You

• I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose.

  

  Barry Williams
  • Fan
  • Bewitched

• Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• New York apartments are notoriously small, and my cute little studio is no exception - space is at a premium, which is one of the reasons that I only have a mini-fridge. Great for leftovers, cheese, and chilling Diet Coke.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Great
  • Small
  • Space

• My goal is to continue to act and still be a professional kiteboarder.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Goal
  • Professional
  • Act

• What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Book
  • Single

• From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.

  

  Patrick Campbell
  • Myself
  • Speech
  • Days

• In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Germany
  • Trendy
  • Ham

• You have to be physical. If you are not, defensive backs will try to pick on you.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Try
  • Will

• Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Black
  • Chinese

• I'm not a homophobic.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Homophobic

• Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Government
  • Design
  • Creation

• I joined forces with the American Cancer Society in 2010 as a spokesperson for the N.F.L.'s 'A Crucial Catch' campaign, which benefits the American Cancer Society. This was important to me because I lost my mother to breast cancer, and I have always felt a strong commitment to doing all I can to fight this disease.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Important
  • American
  • Mother

• How small of all that human hearts endure,That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!Still to ourselves in every place consigned,Our own felicity we make or find.With secret course, which no loud storms annoy,Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Small
  • Joy

• My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

  

  James Patterson
  • Solitude

• Clothing, and the products that you buy, are really about how they make you feel.

  Chad Hurley

• As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Important
  • Find
  • Differences

• My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

  

  Andrea Seigel
  • Reality
  • Feeling
  • Popular

• pain is inevitable,suffering is optional... we have bigger houses,but smaller families. More conveniences,but less time. We have knowledge,but less judgements; more experts,but more problems ; more medicines but less health.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • House
  • Knowledge

• I don't usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something.

  

  Anna Kendrick