Deborah Eisenberg Quotes

I actually came to New York because it was very tolerant. You know, it seems preposterous, ludicrous thing to say in an interview, but I came for the anonymity particularly.

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• If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Different
  • Judgment

• I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Fun

• I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Good
  • Acting
  • Research

• But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • People
  • Important
  • Heart

• I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Conscious

• When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Way
  • Written

• Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Suffering
  • Sea
  • Picnic

• There's always a wine bully. The one person who did read the 'Wine Spectator,' who tells you what to drink and why the '97 is better than the '98. I want to punch the wine bully in the face. I want to make sure this generation of wine drinkers isn't elitist and snotty. I want it to be about family and bringing people together.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Family
  • Why

• When I was 17, I used to really think about what I wore every day.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Think
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • People
  • Know
  • Advice

• The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Future
  • Famous

• I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Women
  • Today
  • Beauty

• This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Evil
  • Worst
  • Passionate

• The wise are above books.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Wise
  • Books
  • Above

• When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Light
  • Yourself

• It saddens me that a historic event like this is being misconstrued by a small but vocal group of critics trying to spread the notion that the UN gathering is really the work of radicals and atheists bent on destroying our families.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Small

• I guess I look so straight and normal, nobody expects me to pick my nose and fall.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Fall

• Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management, that's deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Time
  • Story
  • Same

• Hold the door, say please, say thank you.Don't steal, don't cheat, and don't lie.I know you got mountains to climb, but always stay humble and kind.When the dreams you're dreamin' come to you.When the work you put in is realized.Let yourself feel the pride, but always stay humble and kind.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Work
  • Door
  • Pride

• When I was 18, I borrowed my parents' car, and they are super supportive. They might give us snacks for the road, but it's not like they are paying clubs to book us.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Book
  • Parents
  • Car

• I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

  

  Bad Bunny
  • Creativity
  • Reggaetoneros

• The English government having determined not to respect my rights as a French citizen and officer, and summoned me before a court martial, I have been sentenced to death. I have served the Republic faithfully, and my death, as well as that of my brother, a victim like myself, and condemned in the same manner about a month ago, will sufficiently prove it. I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.

  

  Wolfe Tone
  • Children
  • Brother
  • Citizens

• I actually came to New York because it was very tolerant. You know, it seems preposterous, ludicrous thing to say in an interview, but I came for the anonymity particularly.

  

  Deborah Eisenberg