Anne Tyler Quotes
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
Eduardo Chillida -
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.
Karen Mills -
I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
S. E. Hinton -
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.
Ian Anderson -
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
Wendell Phillips -
I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
Vijender Singh
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra -
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.
Patrick Kane -
To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
Rand Paul -
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.
Hannibal Buress
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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.
Carl Hiaasen -
I've always been happy with my body.
Venus Williams -
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.
E. L. Doctorow -
But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
Jack Kingston -
Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
Barry Williams
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One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement.
Anand Giridharadas -
I never have a problem with the weight cut. My number one enemy is injuries because I train so hard.
Khabib Nurmagomedov -
If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.
Matthew Desmond -
Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.
Dwayne Hickman -
So, are you... intrigued ... by Stanhope?" "Intrigued by him?" "Indeed. Do you find him ..." he paused. "Intriguing?" she teased. He sent her an exasperated look.
Sarah MacLean -
If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
Anne Tyler