A.C. Anderson Quotes

It could be said that just about anyone we encounter is our neighbor, but it especially applies to those we would be least likely to love.

If we ignore international institutions, it will lead only to lawlessness and anarchy.

I am the odd man out in the family.

Who says there can't be more than one very attractive woman on a show without it becoming CHARLIE'S ANGELS?

Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.

When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.

Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them.

You have to not worry or doubt or punish yourself. All the worry, doubt and punishment will not add one second to your life, you know?

If I were the last person on earth, some moron would turn left in front of me.

My mom ate every piece of butter in the Midwest, she lived till she was 90. And my dad, he smoked, he drank - we finally just had to kill him.

My mother loved people and she loved conversation, and she loved to engage with people. She was a really fantastic person. You would've really liked her.

I used to do my dad smoked, he drank, we finally had to kill him.

I have to be very careful about how I do any stuff on sadness 'cause the crowd gets really sad and concerned for me.

I just had a throwaway part, really, if you think about it. I'm not a natural actor, you know? I'm a comedian, through and through. And I really love my lines. Those are the lines I want to do.

Weight is a glanduar thing, as well as an emotional thing.

Let me tell you about my family.

After 34 years, I feel like I did when I was starting out. I feel excited and feel I've never been better doing what I do.

I have added a lot. There's some Vegas stuff and hotel stuff and a whole chunk on health.

Azhar Usman is a true original and will laugh the hate right out of you.

By the choices we make, by the attitudes we exhibit, we are influencing lives every day in positive or negative ways.

Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.

I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.

. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.

I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.

You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying.

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.

My idea of life, it's what happens when they're rolling the credits.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.

Then it was this big thing. She was like, 'I never want to see you again', and I was like, 'Fine. Okay? Fine. Then get some special goggles.

Image of a girl holding a blaster to a twin’s temple. “Remember, bi***. You can’t spell ‘danger’ without DNA.” Blam.

You need the noise of your friends in space.

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.

Of course, I had my heart broken as a teen. I was desperately in love with myself. Then I found out that I was completely shallow. I haven't spoken to myself since.

I could see my face, crying, in her blank eye.

I looked at her, and she was smiling like she was broken.

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.

Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.

I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'