Annie Golden Quotes
People come up to me all the time. If I'm with friends or in a crowd, I'm fine, but if I'm by myself, I get afraid because people are nuts.
Quotes to Explore
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
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'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'
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I have a strong memory of my early childhood. I can remember life before I was two. I remember being toilet-trained like it was last week - and it wasn't last week.
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I had body insecurities when I was younger. I still do.
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You should rule a great country As you would fry a small fish- With the least turning.
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I don't work from nature, I work like nature.
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People come up to me all the time. If I'm with friends or in a crowd, I'm fine, but if I'm by myself, I get afraid because people are nuts.
