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 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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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 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 play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.
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The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
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When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.
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I like a scarf with a shirt; it throws it off a bit.
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I love the Sixties with Julie Christie and Jane Birkin - those natural English beauties. That's the look that is most me, when I wore the tight-to-the knee dresses. I don't think I bleached my hair until I was 20. I like experimenting for big occasions, though. You've always got to do a bit of a number for the birthday!
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I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.
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Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.
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I don't really judge. To each his own. You like what you like.
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Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.
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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.
