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

• 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

• When a fan holds out Helen's picture for me to autograph, I usually sign it Linda Hunt - just to make their heads really crazy.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Crazy
  • Picture

• If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?

  

  Jim Rogers
  • Japanese

• I have a magical work in a magical way. I give magical service for magical pay.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Work
  • Way
  • Service

• Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren't gonna turn around.

  

  Barry O'Sullivan
  • Dogs
  • Fortunes
  • Pasture

• Everybody knows who Gandhi is. Who knows Jesse Stone?

  

  Jesse Stone

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

  

  Anna Popplewell