Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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22 published records
01 / evaluation
“You have to be quite cold-hearted to do what he did to Florence. Because having moaned and complained about Emma and pretty much moved Florence in, then to fall back in love with his wife is a little perverse.”
02 / belief
“I think “There’s a divinity that rough-hews our ends, shape them as you will,” that sense of — I’m thinking again of Tess here as well — the idea that the gods are peevish.”
03 / belief
“I think you get a little feel of that in the house, in Max Gate, and certainly in the cottage because that is so beautiful.”
04 / belief
“I think she was very moved, obviously, because of her father, Leslie Stephen’s, relationship with Hardy.”
05 / recommendation
“I love seeing Liverpool through their eyes as well because they’re like, “Oh, they’re so nice.”
06 / recommendation
“I love The Beatles. I really like the B-sides, and I like George a lot. I’m going to go with “Yes It Is.”
07 / recommendation
“Another thing I really love about America is — and I know there is an American class system, I know that — but I’ve always felt very free in America because people don’t judge me by my accent.”
08 / belief
“I think if you were really stupid, he wouldn’t have much time for you, and maybe that’s a British thing too, but he really valued wit and good conversation.”
09 / uncertainty
“I don’t know, churches or whatever — having a sense of community is really important, and we just don’t have that anymore, and I think that’s a problem.”
10 / belief
“I think tourism — since Liverpool was capital of culture, it became really more prosperous again, and people were getting jobs, and there were the garden festivals.”
11 / belief
“I think she would just get completely smashed and then decide to take me down and write these letters.”
12 / uncertainty
“There was a little bit of envy, I don’t know why, but felt like there was “it should have been me” sort of thing and really wanting to put me down.”
13 / evaluation
“I argued in my very first book that she could never have been such a good comic writer if she hadn’t watched all these farces, if they hadn’t performed them at home, if she hadn’t read them, because her sense of comic timing is derived from 18th-century theater.”
14 / evaluation
“” You do become a little bit paranoid. But I think writing the novel was cathartic, and it did enable me to step back from it and say, “Come on, this is actually quite funny.”
15 / evaluation
“Actually, the older I get, the more I’m like, “I really like that because it does feel very intrinsic to who I am as a British person,” which is — and you might say negative, I might say realistic.”
16 / evaluation
“I think at the time — it was quite a while ago I saw it, and it did feel very refreshing because it really engaged with the politics.”
17 / evaluation
“I’m seeing 11-year-olds with depression, 12-year-olds with depression, 13-year-olds with depression, and that’s something that I think is new and just the sense in which — and I’m not going to blame social media because I think social media’s fantastic — but the pressure young women, particularly, I noticed in therapy, are under to that cult of perfection.”
18 / evaluation
“That’s the whole thing with him. That’s why I think The Well-Beloved is so interesting because it’s the pursuit of the well-beloved that, once you get it, you don’t want it.”
19 / prediction
“I definitely think there were some people, particularly in Oxford and Cambridge, who were really, really angry about it and really thought — because I am outspoken, Tyler.”
20 / evaluation
“I could never understand middle-class women saying women have no power because I was like, “Oh my God, you’ve never been in my family,” because they were always the storytellers.”
21 / evaluation
“I think there’s something about a port because it’s always changing, people are coming and going, there’s musical influences.”
22 / preference
“Obviously, the first thing I did was set myself to read everything, and I did it in chronological order because I think that’s really important.”