Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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17 published records
01 / recommendation
“I always used to be able to depend on the Gideons because no matter what else you were doing, there would always be a Bible in the hotel room.”
02 / belief
“I think things will stay kind of the way they are. But think about this very carefully, as people did when it was a distinct possibility.”
03 / uncertainty
“I don’t know whether you caught it, but there was a big article on the aging of populations.”
04 / belief
“Around that time, confederation happened, I think, for a couple of reasons, that being one of them.”
05 / belief
“We were great readers to children. I was read to as a child, and I think that’s really important.”
06 / belief
“I think there’s a lot of conversations going on right now amongst people who have forgotten the ’40s.”
07 / commitment
“If you start making a speech, I will just cut you off and turn it into a question.”
08 / evaluation
“Yes, Saskatchewan isn’t very funny. And Canadians used to read a lot of poetry because we didn’t have a viable novel-publishing business, or a film industry, or a music industry.”
09 / evaluation
“It depends on what part of Canada you’re in. I think the further west you go, the less of a sense of humor they have.”
10 / recommendation
“We did it. And we ended up signing books remotely because the idea was to do remote book signings for people who couldn’t have them, couldn’t have real people because their publishers would never send them there.”
11 / recommendation
“Because it’s the only book I ever recommend to writing students, but it’s not about how to write.”
12 / evaluation
“Governments, churches, unions, they were all saying to him privately, “You’re doing a great job.” But they weren’t saying anything because they were frightened.”
13 / commitment
“I quit philosophy because it was the age of logical positivism, and that wasn’t the part that I was interested in.”
14 / evaluation
“The town fathers, when it first started — or the town citizens — looked at it askance because it was artistic, don’t you know?”
15 / preference
“Thank you, but we won’t let that get out to the general audience. I think probably because I read a lot of Dickens.”
16 / evaluation
“After a while, you don’t get influenced because your brain has turned to cement.”
17 / evaluation
““The Robber Bridegroom” — I wrote a book called The Robber Bride, which takes a similar type of motif but flips it. They’re infinitely suggestive — these folktales, fairy tales, legends, and myths — because we don’t really know what they mean.”