Deborah Tannen Quotes
The word 'sister' evokes an ideal of connection and support, like the friendships that made Rebecca Wells's 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood' and Ann Brashares's 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants' into best-selling novels and successful films.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.
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I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.
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Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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Women who are stronger than the society allows them to be often feel a need for something stronger than themselves, and to dissolve into it.
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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I decided if it was going to be a mistake to come to New York and try and make a career in fashion, then it was going to be my mistake... But the American dream is real. I'm living it.
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Any painful experience makes you see things differently. It also reminds you of the simple truths that we purposely forget every day or else we would never get out of bed.
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I always had a strong support system. My parents always supported the stuff that I did.
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Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.
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Heaven bent to take my handAnd lead me through the fire.Be the long awaited answerTo a long and painful fight.Truth be told I've tried my best,But somewhere along the wayI got caught up in all there was to offer,And the cost was so much more than I could bear.
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The word 'sister' evokes an ideal of connection and support, like the friendships that made Rebecca Wells's 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood' and Ann Brashares's 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants' into best-selling novels and successful films.
