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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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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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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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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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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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
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'Dark Blue' was a really solid show, and it stopped at season two.
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Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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The world owes an ecological debt to the African continent.
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Home is where we know - and are known - through accumulated experience.
