Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
Storytelling is more like a skin. You start with the outermost layer, what it's going to look like, then you kind of get deeper into it. What's actually going on beneath the surface is not really dictated by or related to the surface genre. It's more about what's going to happen between the characters and what's taking place in the story.
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I really love storytelling.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'
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We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
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I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.
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Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
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Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.
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I don't much like looking back.
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We've written something like 900 songs in all.
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Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.
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I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us human - it's what defines us as human beings. Contradictions are what make characters interesting, and I've been lucky to be presented with characters who have a lot of contradictions.
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In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.
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Storytelling is more like a skin. You start with the outermost layer, what it's going to look like, then you kind of get deeper into it. What's actually going on beneath the surface is not really dictated by or related to the surface genre. It's more about what's going to happen between the characters and what's taking place in the story.
