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.

Charlie Jane Anders

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• I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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  • Positive
  • Jump

• Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.

  

  T.I.
  • Best
  • Like
  • Salesman

• 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.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • School
  • Think
  • Hand

• 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'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'

  

  Tanc Sade
  • You
  • Water
  • Like

• John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.

  

  Zell Miller
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  • Security
  • Outsourcing

• I feel I am very fortunate to have a job that I really like.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Job
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  • Fortunate

• I like children - fried.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Children
  • Funny
  • Like

• I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

  

  Taylor Swift
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  • Write
  • Diary

• Gerard Butler is like a big kid; he's so nice.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • Nice
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  • Kid

• We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
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  • Child
  • Worst

• 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.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Life
  • Know
  • Ocean

• I like a man with some extra padding.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Man
  • Like
  • Some

• I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
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  • More

• 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.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Culture
  • Giving
  • Water

• 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.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Power
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  • Trump

• No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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  • King
  • Rule

• History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • History
  • Like
  • Write

• Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Culture
  • Learning
  • Illusion

• Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Long
  • Need
  • Resources

• Right after college, I got really into St. Vincent. She just is so cool and out there. I think that's super-inspiring. And tone and mood-wise, I just love Patsy Cline and Ray Charles.

  

  Cam
  • Think
  • Cool
  • Wise

• I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive.

  

  Little Richard
  • Sensitive
  • Effeminate

• Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.

  

  Pat Mitchell
  • People
  • World
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
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