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.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Help
  • Reading
  • Excited

• 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.

  

  T.I.
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• 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.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Couple
  • Thought
  • Teenager

• 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.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Picture
  • New
  • News

• You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • You
  • Play

• A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • High
  • Individual
  • Industry

• I take my work seriously.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Work
  • Take
  • Seriously

• No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Man
  • See
  • Blind

• 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.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Black
  • Know
  • Literature

• Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Man
  • Always
  • Cut

• The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Best
  • Too Much
  • Plants

• 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.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Up
  • Great
  • High

• I love the Army with every bone in my body.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Body
  • Army
  • Bone

• Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Change
  • Only
  • Inevitable

• I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Music
  • Women
  • Dress

• I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Never

• 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.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Air
  • Successful

• I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Comedy
  • Like
  • Would

• I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with my life at the time. I was conflicted, and, being a hopeless romantic, I followed my girlfriend at the time to Vanderbilt, where, obviously, we broke up a couple of months later.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The way people look at me these days - that's the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who've attained a certain position are human.

  

  Kendrick Lamar
  • People

• I prefer love over sex.

  

  Enrique Iglesias
  • Sex

• I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!

  

  Kari Wahlgren
  • Home
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Character

• If you're working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours' homework, it's quite a lot on your plate.

  

  Anna Popplewell
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