Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
I remember you said, ‘The truth should hurt. Truth should knock you on your butt. Lies make it easy to stand.
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This is a strange game.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
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For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.
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We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.
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Faithfulness had taken me by surprise. I wondered how long the phase would last.
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Your art is the Holy Ghost blowing through your soul.
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Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression 'individual rights' is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today’s intellectual chaos). But the expression 'collective rights' is a contradiction in terms.
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We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.
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When I watch myself on TV, it's impossible not to say, 'Is that really what my neck looks like?'
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They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.
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I run four miles most days, at about 8:00 to 8:15 pace. It's totally relaxed.
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Through these fields of destructionBaptisms of fireI've witnessed your sufferingAs the battles raged higherAnd though they hurt me so badIn the fear and alarmYou did not desert meMy brothers in arms.
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My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and I was obviously busy in the box. But I'm told that children of television performers grow up thinking that all mommies or daddies work on TV and that it's no big deal.
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The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action.
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I remember you said, ‘The truth should hurt. Truth should knock you on your butt. Lies make it easy to stand.
