Deborah Tannen Quotes
Much of my work over the years has developed the premise that women's styles of friendship and conversation aren't inherently better than men's, simply different.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.
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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.
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When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.
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There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.
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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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We've come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.
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Much of my work over the years has developed the premise that women's styles of friendship and conversation aren't inherently better than men's, simply different.
