C.J. Anderson Quotes

I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.

I'm pale-skinned so I don't feel at my best on a beach.

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

This is me, Clive Anderson, saying good night. Good night.

Elementary school children are very impressionable

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.

Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.

I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand.

I love karaoke; you have to wail when you do karaoke.

Back in the day, no one had digital cameras. They took these pictures of me, got them developed, and then mailed them to me.

It was really bizarre for me to go from being a very private and obscure person and then to be in any way on the internet - like having my picture or videos online.

What would I reclaim America as? I do want it to be a diverse country.

Writing music is always really helpful for me. It always reveals to me how I am feeling.

When I like a musician I want to see a picture or a video of them.

I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.

Maybe some people are better off in obscurity than trying to keep on expanding.

I don't want to be in my 'interview zone' mode. I've been doing a lot of interviews and I'm very self-aware of how I'm coming across.

I think. I do know that I like connecting to people who really resonate with the music. I guess I almost wish I could just connect with the people who really need it.

I've been really lucky. People have been nice to me on the internet. That's the reason why I couldn't figure out what was wrong with me.

I'm a Scandinavian Midwest girl who doesn't always know what's going on in herself emotionally, which is why I make music in order to figure it out.

I was worried that I didn't have as many Facebook 'likes' as another musician. You can almost feel like a failure if you aren't building your fame in that way.

I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.

A Complicated Kindness is just that: funny and strange, spellbinding and heartbreaking, this novel is a complicated kindness from a terrifically talented writer.

Self-esteem should have nothing to do with what you look like – if you exude genuine confidence, people will be swept into it. You have to be able to hold yourself.

We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive.

You're only given as much as you can handle at any given time. Whether it's true or not, it gives you the strength.

I’m trying to accept where I’m at, not run from it.

I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.

I've been very careful. I've gone through pretty much everything. I'm very careful not to let go of the prized possessions, or too much of it that I'll regret in the future.

By moving to London I removed myself from the madness of the entertainment industry. I love the city and the culture, and it was an opportunity to bring my children up in a more sane environment.

I would never point a finger at anyone and say, 'They lived their life badly.' I take it as it comes and deal with each situation as it arrives.

It's funny because sometimes one doesn't actually consider these things for one's self until one's in a situation like this press conferece where one has to kind of think about it.

It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.

I always felt I wasn't completely American and I wasn't completely British: there was a feeling of having my feet in both places.

What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.

I'm a massive fan of Sunshine. Oh my God, I love that film.

Having been Scully for such a long time, I have to prove myself in other roles.

Sometimes I struggle to watch stuff that I've done and sometimes I don't, and I'm sure that my judgment is based on whether I feel like I accomplished what I set out to accomplish.

Only once have I taken on a role where I felt that I didn't quite understand her, but I said yes anyway. I don't think I'll ever do that again.

I'm sure with a production that's not particularly well received or mediocrely received, it must be incredibly challenging to get up and keep doing it.

Directing was a transformative experience for me, one that I really enjoyed.

Change your meanings you alter your destiny. Life does not give us what we want. Life gives us whatever we expect.

Those experiences "made us who we are today!" It's just the way things are.

In Life We Can Have Results or Reasons.

Amateurs focus on rewards. Professionals focus on risk!

I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

Oh father high in heaven - smile down upon your sonWho's busy with his money games - his women and his gun.

Question all as to their ways and learn the secrets that they hold

Come with me to the Winged Isle- Northern father's Western child Where the Dance of Ages is playing still through far marches of Acres Wild.