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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We know that genes shape human cultures and human societies: The DNA we inherited from our ancestors makes certain foods taste better, affects the way we care for children, influences what colors we find vibrant, and contributes to our love of socializing, among other examples.
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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 was a rebel. I never wanted to build. We thought of architecture as intellectually bankrupt and slightly corrupt, and I was always more interested in other forms of discourse.
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Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.
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The guns are turning away from Europe and Russia and Iran and Iraq and they're turning to us.
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I always watched the show thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to be a member?', but I never thought it would happen.
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If she ended, his life would go on, but his story would be over.
