Deborah Tannen Quotes
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
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Home is where one starts from.
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I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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I want to give my respect, glory and time to the Bible - to the word of God - just as I want to give my respect and time to my work.
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Nadal and Roger Federer have great respect for each other. I think Novak Djokovic gets under those two guys' skin a little bit, and maybe they don't want to admit it, and I think that's, in a way, healthy.
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Just as the Huns under their king Attila created for themselves a thousand years ago a name which men still respect, you should give the name of German such cause to be remembered in China that no Chinaman will dare look a German in the face.
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If you were just to look at Lockheed Martin, you'd see a lot of women in senior roles in our company and, not only that, our customers, so I don't consider it an old boys' club.
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Doing multiple character work is athletic in every way - vocally, physically, spiritually, and mentally. With a show like 'Passing Strange,' I usually lose about 12 pounds.
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I wouldn't say that it's hard for sisters to treat each other with respect. Many do.
