Anne Reid Quotes
I'm sick of it when people start to say it: 'Aren't you amazing?' If they start to say it, I hit them.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.
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We fail when we give up too soon.
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I have a lot of energy, and I like to work.
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September 11 was horrific, but I've been through enough crises before that I had my own pattern as to how to collect facts, what a leader should do, how to communicate with people, how to set up operating mechanisms to work our way through it.
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I grew up moving around because my dad was in the Air Force - I think this has carried over into my work in that I like to hop around from one medium to another.
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I'm sick of it when people start to say it: 'Aren't you amazing?' If they start to say it, I hit them.
