Anne Tyler Quotes
I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I don't know what's on the other side.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
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I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre. I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter.
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What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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I just love when girls rock short hair, because they can't hide behind anything. I feel more empowered with short hair.
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I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner.
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The world need strong leadership for women's rights.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
