Anne Tyler Quotes
Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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On the balance beam, sometimes it's really hard to stay on if you're having some rough times.
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Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.
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You don't really see yourself doing things, of course, but you feel.
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Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.
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To put it in plain language, Russia is that country where the name of a writer appears not on the cover of his book, but on the door of his prison cell.
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Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
