Deborah Eisenberg Quotes
I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters.Deborah Eisenberg
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I write in a small office at home.
Walter Dean Myers -
Life is a school of probability.
Walter Bagehot -
You can't choose up sides on a round world.
Wayne Dyer -
I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.
Gary Locke -
To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
Maajid Nawaz -
One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
Zendaya
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
Jackee Harry -
And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
Iris DeMent -
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
Frances Wright -
I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
E. L. James -
The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.
R. Lee Ermey -
PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
Fede Alvarez
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
Ed Gillespie -
With 'If I Stay,' I want you to feel that the whole story is being told from a larger, spiritual point of view. So the beginning is very theatrical.
R. J. Cutler -
Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?
W. Bruce Cameron -
Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.
Olivia De Havilland -
I played football. I wrestled. Those were team sports and I played for the school. When I was younger, I played kick the can and stuff like that. I loved that.
Vince Vaughn
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Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'
Barbara Billingsley -
The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
Gary Zukav -
I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.'
Harold Pinter -
I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters.
Deborah Eisenberg