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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For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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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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What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.
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People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.
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The waking up of a people is historic. It shows the end of a cycle.
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A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.
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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.
