Anne Tyler Quotes
None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.
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Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?
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News isn't even the truth on television.
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There's always something that needs attention when you own a property.
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The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact.
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The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
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None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.