Deborah Tannen Quotes
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
Laura Schlessinger -
I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
Rachel Cusk -
You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
Cam Newton -
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
Ian Mcewan -
As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe.
Zoe Foster Blake -
I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
Natasha Little
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
Victoria Aveyard -
I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.
Barbara Corcoran -
We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
Jack Kerouac -
I like 'Rocky Horror.'
Adam Lambert -
I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E. B. White -
The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
Camille Paglia -
Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
Brown Campbell -
I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
Barbra Streisand -
It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
Zack Greinke -
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
Yani Tseng -
If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.
Anne Hull -
It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
Meg Wheatley -
Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.
Deborah Tannen