Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
There are no requirements when you're using a particular genre. It's not like the genre is your boss and you have to do what it says. You can make use of the genre any way you want to, as long as you can make it work.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.
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I was not the popular kid in school.
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In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don't play music at funerals.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
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If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.
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I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.
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There are no requirements when you're using a particular genre. It's not like the genre is your boss and you have to do what it says. You can make use of the genre any way you want to, as long as you can make it work.
