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Anne Tyler Quotes

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Family Always Tell Meals Well Get

My mother says I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle. I love to talk. I just love to talk.

Love Mother Talk Just Needle Says

Almost nothing is more tedious than complaining about the weather.

Weather Nothing Complaining More

When I was a kid, I wanted to be That Girl. I even wrote a spec script for it and sent it to Sam Denoff.

Girl Kid Even Wanted Sam Wrote

When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world.

Character Writing World Mask Walking

It was an absolute honour to fight in Vegas. Every fighter dreams of fighting at the MGM Grand. That's where so many legends have fought before and so many legends will continue to fight.

Robert Whittaker

Dreams Fight Fighting Vegas Fighter

If you want to be one of the best, you have to look at the best.

Best You Look Want

There is absolutely no doubt that Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF have lost the popular support of the people of Zimbabwe. And the more they become intransigent, the more they become vicious and try to repress people, the more it turns people against them, and the less chance they have of ever holding onto power.

Power Support People Chance Doubt

'2001' used a lot of what's called 'front projection.' You project an image onto this giant reflective screen, and the image bounces back and comes back to the lens and seems to be in the background behind the actors. The whole 'dawn of man' sequence in '2001' was projected eight-by-ten photographs of the African savannah.

Douglas Trumbull

Man Dawn You Back Lens Image

Gray is great. People think gray is a neutral, but I think it's such a moody, intense, dramatic and sexy color. It's very sleek.

Great People Color Think Sexy Gray

We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.

Business Sports Think Human Would

For some time, I've said this issue of comprehensive immigration reform is not just an issue about immigration or human rights or civil rights, it's about our economy. You take 11 million people from out of the dark and into the light. The think tanks have surmised that you are talking about trillions of dollars infused into the economy.

Antonio Villaraigosa

Time Light People Think Talking You

Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families.

Live People Me Someone Alien Write

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