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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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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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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I will never sell Flipkart.
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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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Three coins in a fountainEach one seeking happinessThrown by three hopeful loversWhich one will the fountain bless?
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Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago put up on college campuses. I was at the University of Kansas, and it's somewhat relevant to my life and work that I'm a Jew. But they weren't doing a religious litmus test. They wanted energetic, civil-rights-committed college students to come help them run some summer programs.
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The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.
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What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.
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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.
