Charlie Jane Anders Quotes

At last, Roberta had found an authority figure she could please without hating herself.

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• I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Life
  • Children
  • Control

• Did anyone ever have a boring dream?

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • Dream
  • Boring
  • Ever

• Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Movies
  • Successful
  • Stars

• I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.

  

  Wendell Wilkie
  • Know
  • Day
  • Lose

• The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Trying
  • Party
  • Independent

• I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Important
  • Value

• Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Fun

• I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Family
  • Sing
  • Everybody

• God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite. God sets limits to His patience and forbearance. He warns us over and over again that someday the ax will fall and His judgment will be poured out.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Experience
  • Fall

• Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • Church
  • Gospel

• Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Mean
  • Acting
  • Actors

• Being a working mother is not easy, but I think it helps you choose what's important in your life. If I think about starting a new project - whether it be music, a movie or a fragrance - I always stop and think: Is this something I feel really passionate about? That way, if I'm not at home at least it's for something I really love, and my son can look up to that.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• And it is a very important thing to be and do, if not the most important 'cause how you interpret a story can then make the difference. So it is a very powerful thing to be. And when misused, it's very sad.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Important
  • Powerful
  • Sad

• I have a certain energy on screen, and it's either needed or it's definitely not needed. I know that I can stick out like a sore thumb, and there are some women I'm not ready to play.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Women
  • Energy
  • Not Ready

• Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

  

  William P. Young
  • Thinking
  • Strong
  • Authority

• I think of the US as an empire. The UK at one point, because of its reach, was an empire. But these megachurches - for me the concern is to not assume they have more authority than they actually have, to not give them a kind of reach that they really don't possess.

  

  Anthony B Pinn
  • Authority
  • Reach
  • Empire

• You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • World
  • Free
  • Player

• At last, Roberta had found an authority figure she could please without hating herself.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
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