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.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• 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.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Why
  • Friends

• Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Very

• Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Door
  • Looking
  • Citizens

• Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Book
  • Always
  • Write

• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Work
  • Think
  • Turn

• I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Hope
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Me
  • Confidence
  • Person

• I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Growth
  • Promise

• 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.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Earth
  • Action
  • Alien

• Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • World
  • Earth
  • Population

• 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.

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Important
  • May
  • Book

• 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.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Real
  • America
  • Enemy

• I love candy!

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Candy

• 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.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Technology
  • Present
  • Financial

• 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.

  

  Nazim Hikmet
  • Great
  • Live
  • Looking

• I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • World
  • Writing

• My goal in coming to General Motors was to help restore profitability, build a strong market position and position this iconic company for success. We are clearly on that path.

  

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.
  • Help
  • Success
  • Strong

• I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Myself
  • Chance
  • Retirement

• I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.'

  

  Linwood Barclay
  • Up
  • Country
  • Book

• The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

  

  Jerry Pournelle

• "That’s because our parents pick out our shoes,” said Patricia. “Just wait until we’re grown up. Our shoes will be insane.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Parents
  • Shoes
  • Grown-Up