Deborah Tannen Quotes
I have two sisters; one is two years older, and one is eight years older. That helped me understand how completely different sister relationships can be.
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I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
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I'm very quiet off stage.
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Everyone needs a lay-up at some point in life - just somebody to look out, something good to happen in your life to kind of push you forward.
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As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
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Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.
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If you have 130 people on set, all with different opinions, sometimes it's going to kick off. There might be some people who say I'm a big problem to work with - that you couldn't tell me anything - but hopefully, they don't.
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I have two sisters; one is two years older, and one is eight years older. That helped me understand how completely different sister relationships can be.
