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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The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.
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I really don't require a whole lot in life.
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There's a lot of black men running around with crazy trauma scars, and they should be going to therapy. They should be sitting down and talking to people. But they can't. If you've got the armor of being a man, and the armor of being a black man, that hyper-masculine thing can make those scars deeper.
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I know it is crazy, but I want to create a place where people can come in an organised way to think differently, to think their own thoughts.
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'You think I'm kidding?' the pilot asked.'No, we think you're crazy.'
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Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.
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Sometimes I wish I was crazy, it would make everything easier.
