Deborah Tannen Quotes
I can't tell you how many times I heard from younger sisters that their older sisters were bossy and judgmental.
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The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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I have worked with top directors like Rajamouli and Vinayak and with upcoming directors like Vamsi.
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Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.
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If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
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When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally.
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We burden ourselves with useless ideas which we carelessly take as facts. Instead of letting reality come as a new surprise, we insist that it conform to our habitual concepts, and thus, we spoil everything.
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You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.
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I was only the returned Oriental eccentric, drunk at that…
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Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
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I did go bankrupt because everybody copied me - every single industry. But genuinely, it doesn't matter. I swear I don't care.
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On Disney, we stick to the script. But you go to the 'Grown Ups set' and it's completely different. Same thing with Tyler Perry - it's nothing but ad-libbing.
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I worked for a temp agency called Manpower.
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Just to have that sense of family, it gives you something that you know you need to take care of for the rest of your life. People gave it to him, and he passed it on to us.
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No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.
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If you take as your pattern the wings of feathered birds, these are more powerful in structure of bone and sinew because they are penetrable, that is to say the feathers are separated from one another and the air passes through them. But the bat is aided by its membrane, which binds the whole together and is not penetrated by the air.
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Any day you wake up and the ground isn't shaking is a good day.
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The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or book to script to film. If I play Frank Sinatra, there's gonna be things I do in a movie that Frank might not have done, but it's the personality that comes across.
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The death of the spirit is the price of progress.
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I can't tell you how many times I heard from younger sisters that their older sisters were bossy and judgmental.
