Deborah Tall Quotes
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.
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It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore.
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'Dark Blue' was a really solid show, and it stopped at season two.
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I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.
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The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
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But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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Often, when people don't do so well in a monologue at UCB, it's because they're racking their brain so hard to be funny that they're just not honest and don't just tell a true story, which is what we want.
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When I have a good pair of shoes, I wear them over and over. Whether it's nice sneakers or a cool pair of combat boots, splurge on a pair you love that you can wear over and over with totally different outfits.
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Home is where we know - and are known - through accumulated experience.
