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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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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Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.
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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?'
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John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.
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I feel I am very fortunate to have a job that I really like.
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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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A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.
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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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Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
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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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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.
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Some technologies don't pan out; some companies fail. But I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy. ... I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China or Germany because we refuse to make the same commitment here.
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
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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.
