Anne Tyler Quotes
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
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Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
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I can't sleep in the evenings. Most of the pictures people see of me are me going to work events: a Fendi dinner one night, a Prada dinner the next, and working all day.
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I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form.
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I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.
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My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.
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Acting changed my life. I say God and then acting. Because becoming an actor, I've gained a new respect for humanity. And I believe that it's also helped me to grow as a person. It's been one of the biggest blessings and expressions that I could have ever been gifted with.
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The adventurer in me would love to visit Patagonia, Chile.
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I'd like to be involved in 'SNL' somehow. I mean, being a permanent cast member is a stretch! That's pretty damned hard, but to host it one day would be a dream come true. And I would like to play the DC Comics villain Harley Quinn.
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Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.
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Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven. You know, you've got to take your time. You've got to heat it up. So that's what, that's what I like to do with my music. I like to build it, and build it into a maddening, exciting crescendo.
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I don't find myself to be the kind of person who is easily swayed.
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Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.
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The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.
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If they want to continue with that path of sanctions, we will not be harmed. They can issue resolutions for 100 years.
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
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When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the time - can you imagine, in the middle of the IRA bombing campaigns? I saw an ad inviting Irish applicants for an induction course, so I signed up.
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It is a massive, undeniable failure and a heap of broken promises.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.
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When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
