Anne Tyler Quotes
And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.
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J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
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Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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The Ramans do everything in threes.
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I do not see scales as abstract.
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I've always been athletic and a dancer, so I love doing fight choreography.
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I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing to do their part. But then I have to do my part and give them a sound and a voice that they believe in enough to keep going.
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Occasionally, we are given a reminder of how precious a gift it is to understand the plan of salvation.
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And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
