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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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
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There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'
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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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It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
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I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
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'Day Men' provides a magnificent challenge in that it deals with a secret society within a secret society.
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To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.
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Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.
