Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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I enjoy seeing new places.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
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Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.
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At Mass General in January 2007, Dr. Loeffler's team attached a ring-shaped metal frame to my head with four pins. Then I went to the radiation center, where they strapped me to the treatment table and secured the head frame so that I couldn't move.
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We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.
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I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is a projection of where we were born, what's been withheld or lavished upon us, our color, our sex, our class. And everything we do in life to some degree is a reflection of that context.
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When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
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I don't really know that much about love, it turns out.
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Villains are fun to play.
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Michael Jordan was that guy - he was Michael Jordan. So whatever he did, we followed.
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Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of characters you can include. Even 'furniture' characters can be described and given speaking parts to develop background or atmosphere.
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I am not gonna say that a guy's looks make him have to try harder in any way. I don't believe that at all. I think if he is funny, smart and cool, he's all set. Looks are not very important to me.
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I was a film editor for eight years before I made my first feature, 'Dog Soldiers.' I am from Newcastle upon Tyne, in the northeast of England.
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The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.
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Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.
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My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.
