Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
On the long drive home, Laurence tuned out his parents explaining to him that life isn’t an adventure, for chrissake, life is a long slog and a series of responsibilities and demands. When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn’t do what he liked.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
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I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
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Having spent two years at AOL, I would love to be able to go back to that industry knowing what I know, and I think I would be able to help the traditional media side to better understand what is coming at them, how to deal with it.
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I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.
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I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
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We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
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I'd been in love before - I was always in love.
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I've never seen any character I've ever played as a bad guy or a good guy.
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On the long drive home, Laurence tuned out his parents explaining to him that life isn’t an adventure, for chrissake, life is a long slog and a series of responsibilities and demands. When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn’t do what he liked.
