Anna Popplewell Quotes

What I love is acting, and the technical stuff does tend to slow things down.

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• I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.

  

  K. Flay
  • Better
  • Lazy
  • Month

• To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Understand
  • Difficulties

• I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Love
  • Think
  • Clothes

• I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Human

• Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Death
  • Facts
  • Explain

• It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Great
  • Better
  • Human

• The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Power
  • Reality
  • Insurance

• I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • People
  • Business
  • Technology

• My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Time
  • God
  • Parents

• White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • People
  • Music
  • Kids

• I was quite fearless as a kid. But I've had to realize I'm not invincible. That's what breaking your back does. It makes you grow up and reassess life.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Up
  • Grow

• Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Career
  • Profound
  • Impact

• Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Alone

• The sea was a phenomenon I had never clapped eyes on for myself, yet it seemed, from the tales, a destination ultimate and uncompromising. The ocean’s edge, the brink of the land; the lip of Chaos.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Eyes
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• It was not the 'God-intoxicated' philosopher but the hard-headed, not to say hard-hearted, pupil of Machiavelli and philologic-historical critic of the Bible. Orthodoxy could be returned to only if Spinoza was wrong in every respect.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • God
  • Respect
  • Bible

• Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.

  

  James Gleick
  • Earth
  • Interesting
  • Profound

• Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.

  

  Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin
  • Great
  • High
  • Struggle

• The bikini waxing, after we go there you can't turn back.

  

  Khloe Kardashian

• I started my career in Portugal, and the longest I've ever played a character was for about a year, which is how long our TV shows last.

  

  Daniela Ruah
  • Long
  • Character
  • Career

• I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not appeal to me. It was too much hustle and bustle. And I have since now found a New York where if I lived there now, I know where I would want to live.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • Time
  • Live
  • School

• In my bullpen sessions, I'm just trying to feel comfortable, throw strikes, and not get too complicated.

  

  Drew Pomeranz
  • Trying

• Every German child learns to speak English in school.

  

  Cornelia Funke
  • School
  • English
  • German

• I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably sexy. I would spend all night in the darkroom.

  

  Annie Leibovitz
  • Time
  • Night
  • Sexy

• What I love is acting, and the technical stuff does tend to slow things down.

  

  Anna Popplewell