Anna Kendrick Quotes
My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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With competition everyone has to try harder.
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I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city.
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My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way.
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The affairs of America I shall ever look upon as my first business whilst I am in Europe. Any confidence from the king and ministers, any popularity I may have among my own countrymen, any means in my power, shall be, to the best of my skill, and till the end of my life, exerted in behalf of an interest I have so much at heart.
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My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming.
