Anne Tyler Quotes
I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.
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Think I'll roll another number for the road,I feel able to get under any load,Though my feet aren't on the ground,I've been standing on the soundOf some open-hearted people going down.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.
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There are so many ways of posturing that people associate with being a writer. They imagine you wearing a beret and drinking only red wine and being full of yourself, and so, for a long time, the way I felt about writing was too private. I felt it too important and didn't want to be teased about it. So I lied about it.
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I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
