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"It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting."
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Personal Development

"We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different."
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Personal Development

"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"
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"Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States."
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Personal Development

"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."
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Personal Development

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."
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Personal Development

"People always ask me, how do you do everything you do?"
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Personal Development

"It only takes five people in black robes to determine such crucial issues for our country as abortion, pornography, same-sex 'marriage,' and religious liberties."
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Personal Development

"It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge."
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"I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened."
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Explore more quotes by Anne Tyler

"I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life."
Life

"She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages."
Writing

"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
Age

"I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?"
Work

"I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again."
Writing

"My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages."
Writing

"Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people."
People

"I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?"
Thought

"I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown."
Time

"My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations."
Decision-Making
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