Deborah Tannen Quotes
I'm a linguist. I study how people talk to each other and how the ways we talk affect our relationships.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.
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Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
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We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
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I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.
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I'm a linguist. I study how people talk to each other and how the ways we talk affect our relationships.
