Deborah Eisenberg Quotes
I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters.
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I write in a small office at home.
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Life is a school of probability.
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You can't choose up sides on a round world.
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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.
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To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
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One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
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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.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
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The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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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.
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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.
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Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary. Mean Winning Perception Trying Problem Accepting Situation Relative Definitions Issues May Rejects Ifs Naive Small Wins
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Emerson writes in his Journal that all men try their hands at poetry, but few know which their poems are. The poets are not those who write poems, but those who know which of the things they write are poems.
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I love getting dressed up, but I want to be remembered for my singing.
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I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters.
