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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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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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 had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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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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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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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 extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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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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I just want to prove that I am really good at something. And I haven't quite done that yet - at least not to myself. I know I could ride so much better, with more ease, with more finesse. I feel I'm nowhere near as good as I should be.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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Once you've worked as a writer and editor in the world of social media for a decade, the way I have, you start to notice patterns.
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My family couldn't be more supportive. They're worried and they're always in my business, and my mother does send me grad-school applications every now and again.
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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.
