C.J. Anderson Quotes

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

This fraternity... makes it possible... for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings.

I don't know why the players make such a big fuss about sitting in the first class section of the plane. Does that mean they'll get there faster?

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Another tea-time, another day older.

I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

Why do the faithful have such a will, to believe in something? And call in the name they choose, having chosen nothing.

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life.

Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

One of the most wonderful things about having a positive attitude is the number of people it touches, many times in ways you'll never know.

Laugh loud, and laugh often. It’ll keep you happy, keep you healthy, and keep your attitude headed in a positive direction.

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

Good seasons start with good beginnings.

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.

I might not be ready to pour out my feelings to the world, but I’d had enough of trying to ignore them.

Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.

What happens when you believe something with all your heart? Belief fuels enthusiasm, and determined enthusiasm explodes into passion. It fires our souls and lifts our spirits.

The fewer expectations you have, the better.

You need to be dedicated to your workout, whatever you choose.

The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

You can't build a chimney from the top, you know.

I've changed my mind about it (DH) - instead of being bad, it stinks.

If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?

Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive.

Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen.

I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime.

You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.

The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.

Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor's mind toward some resolution which it may never find.

In terms of the people that President [Donald] Trump is going to have around him, the cabinet. Predominantly white, predominantly male.

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving; you will never get there. Feelings take time to heal after the choice to forgive is made.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

When you resort to shouting in conflict, you are reacting in the flesh. You have lost control of the only person you can control: yourself.

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.

Greatest risk of all: to be vulnerable, to allow others to see us as we really are

My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.