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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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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I was only the returned Oriental eccentric, drunk at that…
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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 one would touch me with a barge pole as an actress. It hit hard. I thought, 'What am I doing? This is a stupid idea!' It's like throwing yourself into a massive pond, and you feel like you're going to drown so quickly.
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I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!
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Words have power. The things that you say to yourself as a parent - the things that you say maybe even just one time to your children - they take it, and they take it into their real world and into their life and beyond.
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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
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I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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You still got that light in your eye,And our day is comin’ by and by.I’m travellin’ this long road here with you;We still gotta long way, we still gotta long way to go.
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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.
