Anne Tyler Quotes
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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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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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
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I've always been happy with my body.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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It's not fair for little kids to feel bad about themselves for how they look.
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I don't want to not be African. The goal is to live in a world where my race doesn't limit my access, where I can see myself represented in the highest level of society without any limitation.
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I've always been big into snowmobiles, four-wheelers, jet skis, all kinds of those X Games kind of things.
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I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
