Anne Tyler Quotes

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

Anne Tyler

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MarriageCharacterReflectionUnhappy

I didn't really start doing stuff until I was 8 or so, but I was an extra in a bunch of different movies, and I just really took to it and really enjoyed it. I kind of bugged my parents to give L.A. a shot, and they were just super-supportive.

Jesse Plemons

ParentsStartDoingMoviesKind

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help.

John Hawkes

HelpYouProfessionalForgetNever

If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.

John Wooden

TodayYoungCoachWouldCareful

People want the Keystone pipeline built all across the country.

Steve Scalise

PeopleCountryWantBuiltPipeline

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.

Josiah Royce

LifeExperienceNowNothingFinal

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dizzy Dean

You Can Do ItYouBragging

I love filming in London. In New York, every street is familiar because you have seen it in a movie. They mythologise their own city. You're forever trying to get down streets that have been blocked off because of shooting. In London, they don't put up with it; they're grumpy.

Douglas Hodge

LoveNew YorkCityTryingYouDown

I am constantly amazed on every level at how lucky I am.

Clancy Brown

I AmLuckyLevelHowEveryAmazed

As an actor, I always think that if someone does pick up a phone during a performance, something dire must be happening in their lives that is more important than theatre - some kind of tragedy they were attending to, or something. It's very uncomfortable if you don't know why they would pick up a phone and talk in the middle of a show.

Annaleigh Ashford

TheatrePerformanceThinkSomeone

The Laffer Curve illustrates the basic idea that changes in tax rates have two effects on tax revenues: the arithmetic effect and the economic effect.

Arthur Laffer

TaxChangesTwoEconomicCurveIdea

My dad has always played and coached, so that's what I knew. I played other sports but always turned toward soccer and had the same love for it as my father. They never forced me to play; I always wanted to. I was always around it.

Ali Krieger

LoveFatherSportsMeSoccerPlay

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

Susan Orlean

KnowledgeBeautifulWishKnowI Wish

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