Anne Tyler Quotes

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.

Anne Tyler

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• A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Life
  • Long
  • Space

• There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • People
  • Great
  • Running

• In America, music is more tightly categorized.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
  • America
  • More

• As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • History
  • Dream
  • Child

• The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Winning
  • Beauty
  • Greatest

• As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'

  

  Tananarive Due
  • World
  • Trying
  • Book

• Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Me
  • Stop
  • Trust

• AppStudio is a native app builder that allows you to build the app and automatically deploy it on Android, iPhone, and Windows. It lets you design it once and then implement it anywhere.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Design
  • Windows
  • iPhone

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • Always
  • Never
  • Boxes

• I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

  

  Yvonne Craig
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Men
  • Man
  • Victory

• I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Long
  • Love
  • May

• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Doing
  • Matter

• Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Great
  • Character
  • Respect

• Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • You
  • Way
  • Wrong

• Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Science
  • Mean
  • Act

• Today, I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have joined. I have joined in. We ask you to join, too.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Today
  • See
  • Kings

• That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

  

  Frank McCourt

• Compassion is of little value if it just remains an idea. It must motivate how we respond to others and be reflective in all our thoughts and actions

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Value
  • Thoughts
  • Compassion

• When I was about 9 years old, man, I realized that the real thing was not only to do what you were doing totally great, but to look totally great while you were doing it.

  

  Jim Carroll
  • Great
  • Real

• You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • People
  • Believe
  • Talent

• I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.

  

  Anne Tyler
  • Believe