Anne Tyler Quotes
In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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I was not afraid of the press or the militants. It was uncomfortable, but I was not afraid. With respect to the press, I knew I knew more than they knew about city matters. With respect to the militants, I understood it. I mean, everybody believed in those days that they were being screwed, you know, that somebody was getting ahead of them.
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One of the things you learn when you go overseas is how much a lot of the countries overseas really just like to enjoy life.
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This business - the auditions, the anxiety - it's all so, aaah, crazy! But I can always call my mom in Cuba to be reminded of what real life is.
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First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
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A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.
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I try to keep myself busy creatively; it's for my own sanity after auditioning in the city for bad television shows and bad scripts and not being a name and having the clout to get my tapes passed on further.
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In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
