Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.
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I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.
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I like children - fried.
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
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Gerard Butler is like a big kid; he's so nice.
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We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.
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I like a man with some extra padding.
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
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Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.
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To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas his forebears carried whiteness like an ancestral talisman, Trump cracked the glowing amulet open, releasing its eldritch energies.
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No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
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I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.
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I like conflict - someone who challenges me, someone who I can look up to, someone who can keep me in check. Love has to be extraordinary; otherwise, there's no point in it. I just haven't met anyone who's made me feel that way.
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Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
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I tend to like dry humor.
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To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
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I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.
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Does the damned fool want to be blown up? Well, blow him up then. Give him hell, Captain Morton- as hot as you've got it, too.
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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.
