Anne Tyler Quotes
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I don't care about revenues.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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I've been training quite hard.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of course, Broadway will always be important. But it's not the focus of everything that you do. You know, I'm very happy I was born when I was, so I got there in time. When it was time to get there.
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Nobody makes a movie about a woman in her mid-30s who wishes she could have met someone to have children with and still doesn't know where to find a date.
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I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.
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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.
