Deborah Tannen Quotes
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
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I want nothing to do with O.J. Simpson. I want that name so far behind me, I want it out of my life.
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The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
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There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time.
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I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
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I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.
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If I'm being honest, yes, I've always been into the underdog instead of the golden boy or guy with the easy life. It doesn't seem that dramatic from a storied perspective to play someone that has it easy or is incredibly normal.
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And so a greater share of the night, Laura shed tears into her soft white pillow. Some of them were for old Oscar Lutz.... Some of them were for the general sad fact that hours fly and flowers die. But most of them were shed because of her own sudden and definite realization that even though there come new days and new ways, – love stays.
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It took me a while to learn the true meaning of patience and surrender, but I have finally accepted that healing doesn't happen on our schedule. It doesn't have a clock or a calendar.
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Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.
