Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
"That’s because our parents pick out our shoes,” said Patricia. “Just wait until we’re grown up. Our shoes will be insane.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
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Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.
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The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
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Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.
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At Mint, we developed five pending patents on our technology, ranging from categorization to the Ways to Save system that calculates how much a new financial product would save a user given their present financial situation.
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Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
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And as I said last night, my number one priority in the coming two months is to try to facilitate a transition that ensures our president-elect is successful.
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It was clear to me that men and women were equal - if not more so.
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There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. That's why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy 'savages.' There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.
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Proclaiming the gospel is not an activity in which we periodically and temporarily engage.
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When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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"That’s because our parents pick out our shoes,” said Patricia. “Just wait until we’re grown up. Our shoes will be insane.
