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Scrappy Little Nobody

The New York Times bestselling collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award–nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Perfect. Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen sta

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Anna Kendrick (15)

“I gave up on being Nice. I started putting more value on other qualities instead: passion, bravery, intelligence, practicality, humor, patience, fairness, sensitivity.”

— Anna Kendrick, amazon.com

Tagged: Nice, Passion, humor, Patience, Intelligence

“Hey, I’m not incompetent because I got famous, I’m incompetent because I’m a pathetic waste of humanity.”

— Anna Kendrick, amazon.com

Tagged: humor, Adulting, Incompetent, Being a grown up, dumb

“I don’t want to become complacent. Lazy is something I’ve always been, but complacent and entitled I want to avoid.”

— Anna Kendrick, amazon.com

Tagged: Complacency, Lazy, Life, Growing Up

“I think I need to become perfect all at once, so I keep getting overwhelmed and putting it off.”

— Anna Kendrick, amazon.com

Tagged: Being Pefect, Growing Up

“The most reckless thing I do is ignore emails marked urgent. It’s a real rush.”

— Anna Kendrick, amazon.com

Tagged: humor, Reckless, Responsibility

“I am very well-liked, and anyone who tells you otherwise is just frightened by the power of their love for me).”

— Anna Kendrick, amazon.com

Tagged: humor, Being Liked, Friends

“I’d been awake for thirty-two hours, but I still ordered a burger and a vodka, ’cause sometimes you can’t call it a day until something good happens.”

— Anna Kendrick, amazon.com

Tagged: little things, Happiness, Finding the good

“I don’t put a lot of stock in nice. I’d prefer to be around people who have any of the above qualities over ‘niceness,’ and I’d prefer it if that applied to me, too. I’m also okay if the most accurate description of me is nervous, and a little salty. But at least I know what I want to strive for.”

— Anna Kendrick, amazon.com

Tagged: humor, Reality, Glamous, Being Famous

“I’m also okay if the most accurate description of me is nervous, and a little salty. But at least I know what I want to strive for.”

— Anna Kendrick, amazon.com

Tagged: Being Nice, Nice, Personality

“All you need to be a writer is perseverance, a low-level alcohol dependency, and a questionable moral compass.”

— Anna Kendrick, amazon.com

Tagged: Being A Writer, humor, Writers, How to be a writer

“I’d moved away from everything I knew and loved at seventeen in spite of how scared I was. I wondered if I would still have it in me to do something I found so daunting. Aren’t you supposed to get more independent as you get older? Shouldn’t I be bolder, more self-sufficient?”

— Anna Kendrick, amazon.com

Tagged: Daunting, self, Bolder

“I gave up on being Nice. I started putting more value on other qualities instead: passion, bravery, intelligence, practicality, humor, patience, fairness, sensitivity.”

— Anna Kendrick, amazon.com

Tagged: Being Nice, Value, Brave

“By twenty-two, I was back to business as usual love-wise: alternating between being contentedly alone and scaring off anyone I actually liked with my intensity and desperation.”

— Anna Kendrick, amazon.com

Tagged: Dating Today, Relationships

“I realized that modern flirting was essentially just being mean, while smiling.”

— Anna Kendrick, amazon.com

Tagged: Flirting

“All you need to be a writer is perseverance, a low-level alcohol dependency, and a questionable moral compass.”

— Anna Kendrick, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing Quotes, Moral Compass