Debra Dean Quotes
Whatever one may say about the perils of workshops, they help writers internalize an awareness of audience.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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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.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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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.
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I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.
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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.
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My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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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.
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True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.
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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.
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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.
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Hanson plays music that is very much a part of everything.
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YouTube was really good for building a kind of core, loyal fanbase. I didn't want to be a YouTube artist as such. I mean, there are people who are able to release albums and live off YouTube, but I felt - and not in an arrogant way - that I could be commercial and credible if I really put my mind to it.
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I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
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I am a Gemini and can adapt to most atmospheres. You get two for the price of one when you are a Gemini.
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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.
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I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.
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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.
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It's very hard when you love someone very much to also start to realize that maybe you want different things for your lives.
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What would it do to your psyche if this were your sky? What would it do to the racial awareness of your species if this were their memory of their dirt-bound cradle, before they stepped out into the great emptiness beyond?
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There had been rain but it had stopped, and the light from a luminously clouded sky was pewter-bright, and puddles on the road were shivering in the wind, and the rooks above the trees in St Anne's Park were being tossed about the air like scraps of charred paper.
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Whatever one may say about the perils of workshops, they help writers internalize an awareness of audience.
