Anne Reid Quotes
Now that I know about my great-great-grandfather, I feel that John Reid and I would have got on well together.
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It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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Right when 'High School Musical' was taking off, one of my little cousins called and was really excited to tell me there was a huge 'I Hate Zac Efron' club at her school. I'm sure they're doing great. More power to them.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.
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Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
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My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.
Garry Kasparov
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To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.
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My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
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I write songs about love because, above all, love is the most human thing we have together. Feelings are a part of us every day. You feel things every day, no matter where you are. So that's what I write about.
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The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.
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That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.
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What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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The expression that there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express.
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Colleges and classrooms should be havens of tranquility, places where thoughtful discussions occur, where students work together with their teachers to acquire knowledge of the arts and sciences.
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I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.
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'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'
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Now that I know about my great-great-grandfather, I feel that John Reid and I would have got on well together.
