Anne Tyler Quotes

When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.

Anne Tyler

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• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Mountains

• I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Bad

• 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.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Work
  • Woman
  • Explore

• 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.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• 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.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• 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.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Work
  • Night

• 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.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Never
  • Human
  • Said

• 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.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Life
  • Family
  • Experience

• My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Prism

• 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.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• The adventurer in me would love to visit Patagonia, Chile.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Visit
  • Adventurer
  • Chile

• 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.

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • True
  • Pretty
  • Dream

• Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Health
  • Responsibility
  • Accountability

• 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.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I don't find myself to be the kind of person who is easily swayed.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Find

• Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Powerful

• The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Tradition
  • Objective
  • Ignoramuses

• If they want to continue with that path of sanctions, we will not be harmed. They can issue resolutions for 100 years.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Path

• Stardust coursing through our veins.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain

• Chris got through about 80 percent of the session today, but his hamstring just isn't right, so we won't risk him.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Today
  • Risk
  • Chris

• I'll have a stamp on me forever. There will always be questions. I brought new fans to the Orioles' organization, and that's good.

  

  Eric Davis
  • Good
  • Forever
  • Organization

• As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • Up
  • Age
  • Growing

• If you're not mindful about sugar, high sugar intake is just the worst thing for you, but I'm, like, everything in moderation, and that's how I approach it.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • High
  • You
  • Worst

• When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.

  

  Anne Tyler