Charlie Jane Anders Quotes

“No,” the bird said. “Please! Don’t lock me up. I would prefer you just kill me now.

Charlie Jane Anders

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• But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Respect
  • Democracy
  • Link

• When I was at drama school, I remember going to Amsterdam for new year and sitting with friends on the front of a P&O ferry in the wind, having some sort of 'Titanic' moment, declaring ourselves to be the new kings of theatre.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Friends
  • Remember

• Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.

  

  Iman
  • Soul
  • Stop
  • Myself

• I was kind of a cross between Kristy and Mary Anne among 'The Baby-Sitters Club' characters. I was shy, but I was also kind of a tomboy, and I was really good at sticking my foot in my mouth even though I was shy.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Good
  • Kind
  • Baby

• The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Art
  • War

• I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • House
  • Fall
  • Expect

• Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • God
  • Men
  • Game

• Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Failure
  • Means
  • Away

• They had learned how to listen for the sense of the meeting, not the voice of the loudest. They had learned that they must judge each time whether obedience was necessary and right, or misplaced and wrong. They had learned that the act of violence is the act of weakness, and that the spirit’s strength lies in holding fast to the truth.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Violence

• It just showed once again that half the world doesn’t know how the other three quarters live.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • World
  • Live

• Why should it be my loneliness, Why should it be my song, Why should it be my dream deferred overlong?

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Why
  • Song
  • Dream

• For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.

  

  Andy Murray
  • Important
  • Player
  • Tennis

• There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Real
  • Desire
  • Hero

• I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.

  

  Joan Blades
  • Country
  • Real

• Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and Felix and learn the secrets and rules of time travel, where they will encounter some of these famous and forgotten people. In Book 1, Clara Barton, then Alexander Hamilton, Pearl Buck, Harry Houdini, and on and on.

  

  Ann Hood
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• I am thrilled to write 'The Treasure Chest,' and to bring to life not only the childhoods of famous people from history, but also the characters of Maisie and Felix, who I hope you will fall in love with just as I have!

  

  Ann Hood
  • People
  • Life
  • History

• It's important for us to certainly cast some Christian actors who can speak to our audience when we market the films, but obviously we don't discriminate. So our crew and our cast, the beliefs don't really matter.

  

  David A. R. White
  • Important
  • Christian

• In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.

  

  Maud Adams

• The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

  

  Edwin Powell Hubble
  • History

• The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Fall
  • Human Condition
  • Human Reason

• “No,” the bird said. “Please! Don’t lock me up. I would prefer you just kill me now.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Bird
  • Kill
  • Do Not