Anne Tyler Quotes

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

Anne Tyler

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I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world.

John C. Reilly

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The approach to 'Star Wars' was more complicated than usual merely by the nature of its expansiveness.

John Cassaday

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We did not seek ideological confrontation.

John Hume

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I have to say that I got off very easy. There were incidents.

Maurice Ashley

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I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

Jeff Bezos

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I think the idea of doing a live audience taped show every week and just the rush of that would be a dream. I would love to do that.

Amber Stevens

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Moviemaking is a time machine: narrative spliced into fragments and reassembled into a constant present, the end of a story shot before the beginning, which is shot after the middle.

Steve Erickson

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You have to take care of your body.

Rita Ora

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TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast.

Jonathan Zittrain

PowerWorldWhyOverDeterminedWho

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

Donald O'Connor

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The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders.

Dayananda Saraswati

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Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed.

Prince Andrew

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