Deborah Eisenberg Quotes
One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.
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I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.
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His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.
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Obsession with self is the motif of our time.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.
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One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.
