Deborah Tannen Quotes
It is easy to understand why conflict is so often highlighted: Writers of headlines or promotional copy want to catch attention and attract an audience. They are usually under time pressure, which lures them to established, conventionalized ways of expressing ideas in the absence of leisure to think up entirely new ones.Deborah Tannen
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
Victoria Abril -
I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
Yo-Yo Ma -
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. Eliot -
Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
Saint Ignatius -
When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
Candice Patton -
We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
Hanna Rosin
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
Sai Baba -
Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
Edith Sitwell -
I think I'm going to be around awhile.
Dan Marino -
Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
Wadada Leo Smith -
Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.
Eckhart Tolle
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Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.
Dan Buettner -
I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
Ed Bradley -
With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.
Nancy Grace -
I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
Ralph Stanley -
I've always been very fond of animals.
Victoria Pendleton -
And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well.
Laura Hillenbrand
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When you go into to vacationing with kids, what people don't get is that there is a portion of it that's going to be unpleasant because you're traveling with children. When people have these expectations that it's going to be perfect or amazing, that has never been my experience.
Busy Philipps -
I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.
Lee Trevino -
Eurybiades lifting up his staff as if he were going to strike, Themistocles said, 'Strike, if you will; but hear'.
Plutarch -
That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.
Little Richard -
This industry kind of forces you to grow up very quickly.
Alessia Cara -
It is easy to understand why conflict is so often highlighted: Writers of headlines or promotional copy want to catch attention and attract an audience. They are usually under time pressure, which lures them to established, conventionalized ways of expressing ideas in the absence of leisure to think up entirely new ones.
Deborah Tannen