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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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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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I'm always in awe of people who are artists in their fields - people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they've created value in the world.
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There's just certain accents that you can and can't do. And the Scottish accent was one that came quite naturally to me, which is weird because I have no one in my life who's Scottish.
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The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist - whatever you want to be - and still be a sexual being. It's not mutually exclusive.
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The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.
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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.
