Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
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Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'
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I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
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When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.
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I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began.
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I'm blessed to have a family, so it's not like I'm twiddling my thumbs. When I'm not working, that's where all my attention comes.
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As long as you're centering back to home base, and that's the strongest magnet in your life, that everything else is okay.
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When I was 6, I held on to my mother's skirt, screaming that I wanted to be a dancer. She enrolled me in an academy in Madrid when I turned 8.
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When it comes to performance art, I am more interested in the failures then the so-called successes. I have never cared for entertaining anyone.
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The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
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The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympathy that was harder to detect: Characters' foibles and obsessive bents were unrelenting, like caricatures.
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Sometimes I wish I was crazy, it would make everything easier.
