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.

Charlie Jane Anders

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• Remember
• Hurt
• Lies
• Knock

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• This is a strange game.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • Game
  • Strange

• 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.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• 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.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Want
  • Words
  • You

• 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.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Forgiveness

• In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Present
  • Wars
  • Self-Defense

• I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Life
  • Day
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Bad
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • You
  • Hold

• 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.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Time
  • Long
  • Peace

• 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.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Mother

• Your art is the Holy Ghost blowing through your soul.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Art
  • Soul

• 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.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Today
  • Chaos

• We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • People
  • Power
  • Forever

• Bluegrass is in my blood and in my ears.

  

  Charlie Haden

• Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations: plantations, mines, railways, and irrigation canals have carved up former wilderness.

  

  Mark Shand
  • Up

• I think, from a really early age, I just wanted to be an actress. And I ended up doing comedy because it was the thing that kind of, like, came out of my nature the most easily. But, I've always wanted to do as many different kinds of performances - whatever I could.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Up
  • Different
  • Nature

• The distinguishing characteristic of the techno-thriller is technical detail.

  

  Edward M. Lerner

• I know what I like and what I want, and I can sit and enjoy every 10 minutes that go by. And truly enjoy it.

  

  Jeremy Renner

• Q: Does commercial success matter to you?

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • Success

• Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Feels
  • Views
  • Solitary

• I don't like extremely long movies. I tend to get a bit impatient. There are definitely exceptions, like 'Lawrence of Arabia,' but for the most part, I feel that movies should usually be shorter and not longer.

  

  David Benioff
  • Long

• Each and every time I went in for IVF treatments, I knew there was a bipartisan group of Congresswomen praying for me, and I was honored that the same group was there at my baby shower.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Time
  • Baby
  • Praying

• Sammy Sosa? Everybody knew who Sammy was, paid attention to Sammy. I had already signed in pro ball when he had the great homer year with Mark McGwire in '98. But I followed it, and I was proud of him because he was my countryman. There are a lot of great ballplayers from the Dominican, and he's one of the best.

  

  Alfonso Soriano
  • Great
  • Attention
  • Proud

• I remember you said, ‘The truth should hurt. Truth should knock you on your butt. Lies make it easy to stand.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Truth
  • Remember
  • Hurt