Anna Popplewell Quotes
If you're working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours' homework, it's quite a lot on your plate.
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As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.
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Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.
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I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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I take my work seriously.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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I love the Army with every bone in my body.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
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A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
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I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
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Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
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If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
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I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
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A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.
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If you're working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours' homework, it's quite a lot on your plate.
