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.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • House
  • Parents
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Family
  • Kids
  • House

• I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Mean
  • Things
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Time
  • Different
  • Experience

• I don't care about revenues.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Care
  • About

• I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Kind
  • Very
  • Loser

• 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.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Cute

• My favorite animal is steak.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Food
  • Animal
  • Steak

• Life is not easy in politics.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Easy

• I've been training quite hard.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Training
  • Hard
  • Been

• 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.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Religion
  • Islam

• My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Dad

• Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Home
  • Reason
  • Get

• Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Human
  • Difficult
  • Being

• 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.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Live
  • Today
  • Feelings

• 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.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Focus

• We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Violence
  • Come

• If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Up
  • Moral
  • Movies

• When I have really blonde hair, I usually go for a more natural look, wearing way less makeup.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Hair
  • Look
  • Makeup

• My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Country
  • Children
  • Bad

• I don't have that drive to be in this field, climbing up, doing bit parts in movies to make a big movie. But I'm lucky I get to also do acting - it's fun. I should probably just take an acting class on the weekends - that would be enough for me.

  

  Jemima Kirke
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Fun

• The focus of 'Flower' is emotion and to make you feel peaceful.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Focus
  • Flower

• Now that you're gone, it hit us, super hard on Thanksgiving and Chrismas, this can't be right, yo you heard the track I did called this can't be life

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • Song
  • Track

• 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.

  

  Anne Tyler
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