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Anne Hathaway (1982- )

Anne Hathaway (1982- )

Anne Jacqueline Hathaway (born November 12, 1982) is an American actress. After several stage roles, she appeared in the 1999 television series Get Real. She played Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries (2001) and its 2004 sequel. Hathaway is an Emmy-winning actress for her voice-over performance on The Simpsons. Hathaway had dramatic roles in Havoc and Brokeback Mountain, in 2005. She starred in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and in Becoming Jane (2007) as Jane Austen.

In 2008, she won awards and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her lead role in Rachel Getting Married. In 2010, she starred in the box office hits Valentine's Day, Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland, and Love and Other Drugs. In 2011, she had a voice role in the animated film Rio and starred in Lone Scherfig's adaptation of One Day. She portrays Selina Kyle in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises and Fantine in Tom Hooper's Les Misérables. People magazine named her one of its breakthrough stars of 2001, and she appeared on its list of the world's 50 Most Beautiful People in 2006.

Quotes·Quotations by Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway as Emma Morley from One Day (2011)

¶ Whatever happens tomorrow, we've had today.

Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle / Catwoman from The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

¶ Catwoman: You don't owe these people anymore! You've given them everything!
Batman: Not everything. Not yet.

¶ [a couple thugs go to attack Lucius while he's handcuffed. Catwoman intervenes and beats them down]
Lucius Fox: [to Batman] I like your new girlfriend!
Catwoman: [she undoes his cuffs] He should be so lucky.

¶ Stryver: Do those heels make it hard to walk?
[Catwoman kicks Stryver from behind]
Catwoman: I don't know, do they?

¶ Selina Kyle: You don't get to judge me just because you were born in the master bedroom of Wayne Manor
Bruce Wayne: [interrupting] Actually, I was born in the Regency Room.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hathaway

Annie Hall (Annie Hall, 1977)

Annie Hall from Annie Hall (1977)

Quotes·Quotations by Annie Hall

Diane Keaton as Annie Hall from Annie Hall (1977)

¶ La-dee-da, la-dee-da.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001)

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001)

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (née Anne Spencer Morrow; June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was an American author, aviator, and the spouse of fellow aviator Charles Lindbergh. She was an acclaimed author whose books and articles spanned the genres of poetry to non-fiction, touching upon topics as diverse as youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment, as well as the role of women in the 20th century. Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea stands as a seminal work in feminist literature.

Quotes·Quotations by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Abundance

¶ One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

Future

@ The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it. [The Wave of the Future (1940)]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Morrow_Lindbergh

Anne Frank (1929-1945)

Anne Frank (1929-1945)

Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (12 June 1929 – early March 1945) was one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941 when Nazi Germany passed the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws. She gained international fame posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

The Frank family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933, the year the Nazis gained control over Germany. By the beginning of 1940, they were trapped in Amsterdam by the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in the hidden rooms of Anne's father, Otto Frank's, office building. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, were eventually transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they both died of typhus in March 1945.

Otto Frank, the only survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that Anne's diary had been saved, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl. It has since been translated into many languages. The diary, which was given to Anne on her 13th birthday, chronicles her life from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944.

Quotes·Quotation by Anne Frank

Beauty

¶ I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. [The Diary of a Young Girl]

¶ Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank

Ann Richards

Ann Richards (1933-2006)

Dorothy Ann Willis Richards (September 1, 1933 – September 13, 2006) was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Texas. She first came to national attention as the state treasurer of Texas, when she delivered the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Richards served as the 45th Governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995 and was defeated for re-election in 1994 by George W. Bush.[1] Ann Richards was the second female governor of Texas.

Quotes·Quotations by Ann Richards

Success

¶ I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression, and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew. Leaders who told us when things were tough, and that we would have to sacrifice, and these difficulties might last awhile. They didn't tell us things were hard for us because we were different, or isolated, or special interests. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Notes

[1]^ CBS/AP, "Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards Dies At Age 73, After A Six-Month Battle With Esophageal Cancer," CBSNews.com, September 13, 2006, web:CBSNews-Richards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Richards

Anita Wise

Anita Wise

Quotes·Quotations by Anita Wise

Appearance

¶ Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face.

Angela Chase (My So-Called Life)

Angela Chase (My So-Called Life)

Angela Chase, played by Claire Danes, is a 15-year-old sophomore at Liberty High School in Three Rivers, Pennsylvania, a fictional suburb of Pittsburgh. Like most teens in the throes of self-evaluation, Angela is attempting to discover and assert her identity. To do this, she distances herself from her past and pulls away from her parents and her childhood friends, Sharon Cherski and Brian Krakow. In their place, she befriends Rayanne Graff and Rickie Vasquez. Angela has a crush on Jordan Catalano and admires him from afar; they later begin dating, and inevitably break up. With these new relationships, Angela finds herself in precarious and sometimes dangerous situations; despite temptation, she always remains true to her values. Angela narrates 17 of the 19 episodes in voice-over.

Quotes·Quotations by Angela Chase

Claire Danes as Angela from My So-Called Life (1994)

¶ Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart. [Pressure, 1.13]

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People: Angela Chase (My So-Called Life)

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives. It is the largest museum in the United States of America dedicated to a single artist.

Warhol's art encompassed many forms of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. He was also a pioneer in computer-generated art using Amiga computers that were introduced in 1984, two years before his death. He founded Interview Magazine and was the author of numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties. He is also notable as a gay man who lived openly as such before the gay liberation movement. His studio, The Factory, was a famous gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons.

Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films. He coined the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame". Many of his creations are very collectible and highly valuable. The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises. The private transaction was reported in a 2009 article in The Economist, which described Warhol as the "bellwether of the art market".[1] Warhol's works include some of the most expensive paintings ever sold.

Quotes·Quotations by Andy Warhol

Art

¶ Land really is the best art.

Change

¶ They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

References

[1]^ "A special report on the art market: The Pop master's highs and lows". The Economist. November 26, 2009. Retrieved August 14, 2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol

Andy Serkis (1964- )

Andy Serkis (1964- )

Andrew Clement "Andy" Serkis (born 20 April 1964) is an English film actor, director and author.

He is popularly known for playing through motion capture to animate and voice computer-generated characters: Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and its upcoming prequel The Hobbit, King Kong in the eponymous 2005 film, Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Captain Haddock in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin.

Andrew also earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for his portrayal of Ian Brady in the British television film Longford. Serkis's motion captured work have been critically acclaimed, especially as Gollum for which he earned several award nominations, becoming the first motion captured actor to win a Empire Award, a Saturn Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Quotes·Quotation by Andy Serkis

Andy Serkis as Gollum from The Lord of the Rings

¶ My precious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Serkis

Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.

Quotes·Quotations by Andrew Lang

Writing·Reading

¶ You can cover a great deal of country in books.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lang

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