Deborah Tall Quotes
I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
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The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
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I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'
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The farthest place on earth is the hour that is just over. Make the best use of the hour that has just begun!
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A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.
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It used to break my heart that I didn't get to start in varsity soccer!
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The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.
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When I'm cooking for myself, I find that I eat almost completely vegetarian, although I'm not vegetarian.
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Free Tibet before free trade.
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As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.
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There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.
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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
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Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.
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If America wants to lead the world, it needs to make sure new ideas can get to market. More opportunity will birth more companies that create more jobs.
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The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.
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A trajectory of misery – at this point – seems intentional. We have all the information we need to see clearly. We are no longer unaware toddlers on the landscape of consciousness. It is no longer cute to crap ourselves.
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I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.
