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.
Rand Paul -
It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
Rand Paul -
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.
Yasmine Al Masri -
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.
Eddie Izzard -
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.
Ian Mckellen -
I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
L'Wren Scott
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
Forest Whitaker -
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.
Madchen Amick -
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.
Pat Paulsen -
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson -
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.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Those who go along get along.
Sam Snead
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell -
If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
Karl Marx -
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.
Ian Hacking -
My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.
Pamela Anderson -
I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
Mallory Ortberg -
None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade, and what it must be like to return to a character and imagine the time off-screen, which is interesting. There's something as an actor that I enjoy about evolving characters.
Vin Diesel
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I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.
Edward Teller -
We aren't handicapped in any way except by what other people think. Focus on people's abilities. I can't be on 'American Idol,' but there's all kinds of stuff I can do.
Marlee Matlin -
In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.
Albert Renger-Patzsch -
Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years.
John Perez -
I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.
Deborah Tannen