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Anne Tyler Quotes

I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.

Anne Tyler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 25, 1941

Topics

Think Stand Enough Say Want Own

Running is my church.

Joan Van Ark

Church Running

If there's two things I will never do, it would be grow a beard and pick up the uke again.

Jens Lekman

Beard Grow Will Never Two Up

I frequently find after a rehearsal of a performance that I have more breath, and can walk better and climb stairs better than I could before. It's as if I've expanded my lungs doing it. Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

Jeffrey Tate

Walk Climb Performance Better Doing

I've done theater most of my career, and I get to see the reaction of the audience right after the show.

Angela Robinson

Career Done Reaction Right See Get

I came out to L.A. in '78 to be a musician. I didn't get into comedy until the mid-Eighties.

Andy Kindler

Comedy Out Get Musician I Came Came

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He's given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball's taught me on and off the court. For the people that I've been able to meet through the game of basketball.

Stephen Curry

Family God Health Talent People Me

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

Stephen Dorff

Teen Want Kind Normal Just Just Be

President Obama decided to prematurely withdraw from Iraq for no other reason than politics. The artificial deadline for withdrawal was not determined for strategic goals but rather for a political one - his reelection timetable.

Michael Ramirez

Goals Politics Political President

There are three main pillars of China's economy. One is export, which is limited by sluggish global demand. The second is investment. In many sectors, there is already too much investment and overcapacity. The third is consumption.

Lou Jiwei

Too Much Investment Three Economy

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

Joni Mitchell

Time Myself Sleep Painting Busy Eat

So many different countries have got their version of what Merlin is: the Scottish say he Scottish, the Welsh say he's Welsh, the French say he's French.

Colin Morgan

Say Got Different Scottish He Welsh

If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.

Brian Clough

Go Manager Well He Chairman Should