Deborah Tall Quotes
The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.
Quotes to Explore
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
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Not a lot of people have jobs that they're really comfortable with, but I'm one of those people.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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Virgin America flyers tend to be more likely to be using a mobile device and tapping social networks - even at 35,000 feet.
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If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.
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True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.
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It's very difficult for designers today. How can someone produce so many shows? Now the minimum is four a year.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his mouth, knows nature is not intrinsically healthy.
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Mystery, speaking through mysteries. Insn't that meaning? Isn't that the conscious or unconsciousnes purpose of the compulsive urge to create?
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A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
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I'm very impressionable: I get very taken away by stories and certain feelings. With writing, sometimes I want to feel like a character.
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From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.
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I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?'
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Online, I would never friend a random cute guy on Facebook or start liking his pictures on Instagram - even if I had a crush on him. But with Tinder, it's like following or friending each other at the same time. The risk of revealing your feelings is removed.
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For over 25 years, Lacy Clay has been a powerful voice for working families and a tireless advocate for the people of St. Louis. And throughout his long career in public service, I've considered Lacy a close personal friend.
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It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down.
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The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.
