Deborah Tannen Quotes
A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I love to write.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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There's something so arrogant about us creating robots that are more and more human-looking or acting. It's like we're playing God. Let's create something that's a reflection of us, but it's inferior.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'
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A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life.
