There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate. Anne Hathaway More Quotes by Anne Hathaway More Quotes From Anne Hathaway I've been extraordinarily successful for my age. I think for probably anyone's age, I'm very fortunate. Anne Hathaway successful age thinking The best part about working is that you never know what you're going to learn when you start out. Anne Hathaway knows It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that a billion women have been raped or beaten, just the enormity of that. When I was in college, I'd heard that one in four women would be raped, and I thought, God, that means I must know someone who was raped. Sure enough, I found out a week later that a friend had been. A billion is too big because one is too big. 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I'm not interested in games. I think that, if you are someone who playing hard to get comes naturally to, go with God and do that. Anne Hathaway girl games thinking I don't love exercise. Some of it is more fun than others, so what I do is, if I'm on the treadmill and I don't want to finish, I look at it and say, "Okay, this is 20 minutes, versus the rest of my life. I'm going to spend the rest of my life doing so many other things, so I can do this for 20 minutes." Anne Hathaway exercise fun looks