Anna Torv Quotes
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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Tech is all about building human connections.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior.
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Scars are wisdom in disguise.
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Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.
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Certain movies like 'Wag The Dog,' we used improv on every scene that we did. Pretty much, we would shoot from the script and then some stuff that we came up with in rehearsal, and then we'd have at least one or two takes where we completely went off the script and just flew by the seat of our pants.
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On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.
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I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round.
