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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Sometimes, the action genre does get stale. Although I want to go back and see my favorite characters in their tentpoles - and will religiously do that - it's really fun to see breakout ideas and concepts. Let's make some new stories.
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One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.
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I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask.
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Humor is the harmony of the heart.
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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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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?
