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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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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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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You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.
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Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.
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I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.
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When bills come in, Medicare get so many bills every day, it pays most of them and then goes back later to figure out if they were fraudulent, if it ever goes back at all.
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One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.
