Anne Tyler Quotes
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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Nate Diaz is a tough opponent. I've fought him.
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
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Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.
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Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.
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O meu passado é tudo quanto não consegui ser.
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There are different flavours of sexiness.
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Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured. You can never tell how a policy has been reached just by looking at the end result. Some people who have achieved a huge amount do not come across as impressive when you speak to them.
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'Return To Nim's Island', I was so honored to be asked to play the role of Nim because I loved the original film, the 2008 film 'Nim's Island.'
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Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on.
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There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
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I think that when a film does its job, it poses questions rather than gives answers. It should act as a frustrating counselor who, at your bidding for advice, says, 'What do you think?' I think that's some of what the culture critic Greg Tate meant by art leaving a 'metaphysical stain.'
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The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
