Deborah Tannen Quotes
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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Those who go along get along.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.
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I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
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Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name.
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I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
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He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.
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My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.
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I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.
