Debra Dean Quotes

Whatever one may say about the perils of workshops, they help writers internalize an awareness of audience.

Debra Dean

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• I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Religion
  • Child

• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Different
  • Play
  • Acting

• We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Earth
  • Learn
  • Human

• My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Loyalty
  • Bond
  • Royalty

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Experience
  • Proud
  • Discipline

• True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Philosophy

• What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Relationship
  • Say
  • Manager

• When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Father
  • Myself

• Hanson plays music that is very much a part of everything.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Everything
  • Very

• I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Never
  • Until
  • Watergate

• A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Space
  • Fiction

• I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Up
  • Money
  • Bad

• Though he made a joke when asked to do the right thing, he always did it. He was so much more in earnest than he appeared. He did not do himself justice.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Justice

• MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MORE MONEY.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • People
  • Money

• Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Beginning

• We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.

  

  Anna Lindh
  • Together
  • Community

• I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Way
  • Desire
  • Knowing

• I may make you feel but I can't make you thinkYour sperm's in the gutter, your love's in the sink.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • May

• Sexual immorality and impure thoughts violate the standard established by the Savior. We were warned at the beginning of this dispensation that sexual immorality would be perhaps the greatest challenge. Such conduct will, without repentance, cause a spiritual drought and loss of commitment.

  

  Quentin L. Cook
  • Beginning
  • Challenge
  • Spiritual

• I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.

  

  James McAvoy
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Whatever one may say about the perils of workshops, they help writers internalize an awareness of audience.

  

  Debra Dean
  • May
  • Audience
  • Helping