Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
Maybe she would have done more good as a playwright than as a doctor, after all - clichés were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible. Maybe if enough people had worked to demolish clichés, the world wouldn't have ended.
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I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor... and now I'm a style guru!
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.
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What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.
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No parent would fail to call the doctor if their child developed a fever.
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Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
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'Lost' makes a lot of sense to me, philosophically.
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Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.
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What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.
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People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.
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I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.
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I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.
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I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.
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When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.
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Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.
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There is a sense of feeling larger than your own life when you're in some common mission together. You have to hope it's not going to take a war to bring that back to America again. I think another time when it seemed to be here was in the early 1960s.
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Gratitude based on a faith that everything that happens or doesn’t happen in your life is for your own best interests. That we live in a purposeful universe. Life is always for you; it is never against you. It is a fact that blessings sometimes come wrapped in fear, pain, and tears. In choosing to practice unconditional gratitude you are choosing to trust the process, to honor your feelings and to place your faith in an outcome of inevitable grace.
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Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
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Maybe she would have done more good as a playwright than as a doctor, after all - clichés were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible. Maybe if enough people had worked to demolish clichés, the world wouldn't have ended.
