Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
People who told you to "think fast" were always those who thought much more slowly than you did.
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
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I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.
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If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.
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The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
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The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including whether they have a history. But because of the rarity of blue boron diamonds, they often fetch more money than gems of similar quality.
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I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.
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There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.
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The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.
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Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
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Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I’ve been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I’m doing now.
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Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there's really no such thing as an original idea - only an original take on an idea that's been done before.
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I work in a small study on the top floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn - it's about 75 square feet, 11 taken up by book shelves along one wall.
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I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.
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Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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Some people, they just don't get a joke.
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We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually.
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People who told you to "think fast" were always those who thought much more slowly than you did.
