Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.
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'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep.
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There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.
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I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going.
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Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?
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I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation.
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(Highland) made the adjustment - they just didn't hit them.
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Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed by officials, academics, or economists who know every science but the science of human nature.
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Getting older is not something that you're not much concerned with.
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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative.
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Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.
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I follow my nose. It’s as simple as that.
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Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.
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I just wanted to go out and make a record that Ive always wanted to make since I was a kid.
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Laurence dwelled on this linguistic injustice
