Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
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I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.
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I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.
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My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.
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If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.
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When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
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I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.
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My painting does not come from the easel.
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I've always come into a show when the show was already up and running.
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Jam! I love my jam. I've just had a batch of it come through, I've been making it.
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The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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Tony Scott, Walter Hill, Michael Mann - I'm a big action fan, full stop. And even though Michael Mann is the more celebrated film-maker than Tony Scott, I love them both in different ways.
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'FlashForward' was a dream come true. I had auditioned for David Goyer for 'Blade: Trinity' and didn't get the part, but I guess he became a fan.
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These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.
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Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
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Everything I've ever dreamed of, everything in my wildest dreams, is coming true.
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You can dream big and it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from.
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The problem with prime beef is that there are so many people out there selling offal. So you don't know when you're going eat a shitty gangster movie. Because everybody knows there's good stuff to be involved in.
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I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.
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Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich old-fashioned story-telling. Novik lures her readers into the streets of a bawdy seventeenth-century London with a nudge and a wink and keeps them there with her infectious love of detail and character. A raunchy, hugely entertaining read that will leave you at once satiated and hungry for more.
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You celebrated the small victories, and you dreamed of the big ones to come.
