Anna Kendrick Quotes
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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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.
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Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.
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I don't know how much I'm connected to the hip-hop scene, but I definitely lend from that urgency.
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There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.
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I understand the bad rap that 3-D is getting because the conversions are crappy and because the films aren't designed for 3-D. It's a completely different medium.
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The hard thing about 'The Saint' was that my character was supposed to die, but then they reshot the ending based on tests and she lives. I created the character based on her dying - she would never have been as innocent otherwise. So I didn't have high expectations for that film.
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When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.
