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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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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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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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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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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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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The Tamil industry, while being better than all the other film industries when it comes to treating female actors, is still dominated by men. So, I can only work within the space offered to heroines, and I think I am doing that.
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Hmmmm...There certainly are a lot of pretty boys in this world.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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When I hear about these terrorist ideologies, they are completely foreign and strange to me. I mean, to me, it's, like, antithetical.
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Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder.
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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.
