Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.
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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
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The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.
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The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
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Knowledge is the life of the mind.
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Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
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My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.'
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It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.
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I'm only at the beginning of my career, but I feel successful in that I haven't sold out in any way, shape or form. I feel good about the choices I've made, and I don't feel like I've let go of any of my values.
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What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
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That's silly talk... Talk to my wife. She'll tell me I need to learn to just put my socks on the hamper.
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once, and they require separate techniques.
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Where there is fear there is aggression.
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The essential basis of life itself, namely, protoplasm, is a substance composed largely of water and having the physical constitution of a viscid liquid.
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I think if I had my life to live over again, I'd do things a little different. I was aggressive, perhaps too aggressive. Maybe I went too far. I always had to be right in any argument I was in, I always had to be first in everything. I do indeed think I would have done some things different. And if I had I believe I would have had more friends.
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It was difficult to find my way into 'I Am Abraham,' to feel confident enough to inhabit Lincoln's persona. I began with a prologue in a neutral voice, wrote of Lincoln at the White House with a sly young reporter quizzing him about his humble origins.
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It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess.
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I almost never invest in ideas or plans, so you'll need to have a company and at least a product, if not customers.
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But you make me sing like a guitar humming . . .
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If she ended, his life would go on, but his story would be over.
