Deborah Tannen Quotes
Maybe we're kind of predisposed to think that anything a politician does is calculated and therefore suspect.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
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I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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Perhaps this is because I'm from the generation that grew up watching 'The Jetsons' on TV, but I really thought we would be much more advanced in the areas of transportation and medicine.
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Legitimate small businesses are put at a huge competitive disadvantage when bad actors lie about their small business status and don't play by the rules.
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I started out making personal pieces, and realized that I actually like designing. I am self-taught, so I had a lot to learn technically.
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There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals.
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Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.
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Guard your light and protect it. Move it forward into the world and be fully confident that if we connect light to light to light, and join the lights together of the one billion young people in our world today, we will be enough to set our whole planet aglow.
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What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.'
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I had a great time doing 'Torchwood,' I really did.
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Maybe we're kind of predisposed to think that anything a politician does is calculated and therefore suspect.
