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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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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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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I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.
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I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
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I think what's so interesting for me is the different roles that I play. I love doing the research, and I love - I feel fortunate in the sense that I get to explore many different worlds, of things that I may not really get to learn a lot about.
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I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult.
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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.
