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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Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.
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It's important to be able to be a girl and be a scientist and have neither of those things affect each other.
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There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
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It’s one thing to have guts; it’s another to be crazy.
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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.
