Deborah Tannen Quotes
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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I am a very selfish person.
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When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
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Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.
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I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.
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At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
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You are either lucky in this department or you aren't-and you cannot make your own luck.
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The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.
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The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.
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We said we'd never tour ... and we'll never do a tour, I don't think - or if we do it won't be longer than about two weeks.
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'Right' and 'wrong' aren't words a linguist uses.
