Deborah Tannen
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ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family. ZACHARY QUINTO LEE ATWATER I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships. PATRICIA HEATON HUBERT H. HUMPHREY My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships. JADA PINKETT SMITH VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace. 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The best way for me... NADIA ALI LLOYD ALEXANDER ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY DARK JAR TIN ZOO Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between ... EMILY GIFFIN My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon thei... VIKAS SWARUP UNKNOWN All my relationships and all of my challenges are opportunities for my soul to evolve. EILEEN ANGLIN JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD C. JOYBELL C. JOHN MILTON I'm really connected to people, and my relationships with people are paramount, so I write about... ALANE FERGUSON DEEPIKA PADUKONE As empaths, one of the quickest ways to completely losing our grounding in reality is by deferring o... MATEO SOL HAROLD EVANS From Genesis to Revelation, holy text is all about relationships and the limitless flavors of those ... MICHAEL BEN ZEHABE The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom i... KATE BOSWORTH My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did n... ANTHONY EDWARDS CARSON WENTZ WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Search and find out what you are meant to do in this life, when you find it, do it SOTONYE ANGA Locating friendship at the heart of mission involves certain assumptions -- that reconciliation with... CHRISTOPHER HEUERTZ How is my communication today laying the foundation for my relationships tomorrow? ALARIC HUTCHINSON The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without ne... PAUL DAVID TRIPP RICHARD YATES ROBIN S. SHARMA VICTORIA MORAN I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear ab... DAVID SPADE My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them. JENNIFER O'NEILL ERNEST HEMINGWAY Insightful, creative mind, dedicated, and wonderful friend and co-worker whom I had the privilege to... CARL BUSBY SR STEVE CARELL The show basically charts life. Youthful optimism, brash idealism, first love, setbacks, relationshi... ROB STEVENS HARRISON FORD E. L. DOCTOROW You must step forward, Arutha. You will never be the man for whom you were named, and you will never... RAYMOND E. FEIST TOM STOPPARD I'm talking to myself in two different personas now. I'm reaching for a full-throttle meltdown and w... C.K. KELLY MARTIN ZSA ZSA GABOR The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK DR. ALEX CARREL ALICIA SILVERSTONE When I am me, I can see me in my space. My desk faces the window and an ocean. The flower on my desk... 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DEBORAH EISENBERG I always need huge amounts of time to do anything. DEBORAH EISENBERG To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form. DEBORAH EISENBERG For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cut... DEBORAH EISENBERG I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I wa... DEBORAH EISENBERG I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy. DEBORAH EISENBERG I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses. DEBORAH EISENBERG I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient. DEBORAH EISENBERG We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we re... DEBORAH EISENBERG I just want to be on my own branch twittering. DEBORAH EISENBERG I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a ... DEBORAH EISENBERG I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk... DEBORAH EISENBERG It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more... DEBORAH EISENBERG I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both b... DEBORAH EISENBERG I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided... DEBORAH EISENBERG The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it. DEBORAH EISENBERG I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very activel... DEBORAH EISENBERG I actually came to New York because it was very tolerant. You know, it seems preposterous, ludicrous... DEBORAH EISENBERG Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de fa... DEBORAH EISENBERG I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about... DEBORAH EISENBERG I would like to never ever think about any political issues. DEBORAH EISENBERG The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is ... DEBORAH EISENBERG Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all f... DEBORAH EISENBERG Fiction is a report from the interior. DEBORAH EISENBERG DEBORAH SAMPSON Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end. DEBORAH MOGGACH It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think ... DEBORAH MOGGACH Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that l... DEBORAH MOGGACH It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relativ... DEBORAH BULL I did have a go with Botox, but I couldn't move my eyebrows. I also, at one point, had that fill... DEBORAH MOGGACH DEBORAH REBER DEBORAH DAY DEBORAH DAY DEBORAH DAY DEBORAH KERR DEBORAH NORVILLE I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampir... DEBORAH HARKNESS DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH SAMPSON DEBORAH SAMPSON DEBORAH RANEY DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You... DEBORAH MAILMAN The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the strug... DEBORAH EISENBERG My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and mayb... DEBORAH MAILMAN DEBORAH SAMPSON The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in clo... DEBORAH COX I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would d... DEBORAH COX I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who kno... DEBORAH MAILMAN Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for ce... DEBORAH WILES DEBORAH RANEY DEBORAH REBER DEBORAH DAY DEBORAH DAY True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for th... DEBORAH BARNES The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching th... DEBORAH MOGGACH The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working i... DEBORAH MAILMAN The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working i... DEBORAH MAILMAN I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and... DEBORAH MOGGACH DEBORAH SAMPSON DEBORAH SAMPSON DEBORAH SAMPSON Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80... DEBORAH BULL Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns,... DEBORAH KASS DEBORAH NORVILLE When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when... DEBORAH COX It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my... DEBORAH EISENBERG DEBORAH SAMPSON The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you DEBORAH WILES There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us ... DEBORAH HARKNESS DEBORAH SAMPSON I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a probl... DEBORAH ELLIS When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist a... DEBORAH ELLIS Help me Lord be a Light and not a shadow in the darkness of my fears. DEBORAH BRODIE Not understanding something must not turn us away from God, his ways, or purposes; rather it must be... DEBORAH BRODIE What the edge of Truth cuts, the edge of Grace mends. DEBORAH BRODIE Count the cost of everything.DEBORAH BRODIE Start today like a new beginning, and not a repeat. DEBORAH BRODIE It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - ... DEBORAH MOGGACH He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though t... DEBORAH COX There is that idea of seeming crazy when you're seeing spirits or you're seeing dead people,... DEBORAH MAILMAN Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's s... DEBORAH KASS I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more ex... DEBORAH COX The catheter allows us to bathe the entire abdominal area with a high concentration of chemotherapy ... DEBORAH ARMSTRONG It's the kind of thing you sort of always hope you're going to see. DEBORAH ARMSTRONG It's very good news. A lot of larger institutions have already adopted this approach. At least for t... DEBORAH ARMSTRONG This is a significant improvement in survival for women with this disease, which is most often diagn... DEBORAH ARMSTRONG IP therapy is not a new treatment approach, but it has not been widely accepted as the gold standard... DEBORAH ARMSTRONG We want to make this a model for other communities in the future. DEBORAH ABBOTT The heritage of the state is very agricultural. Re-energizing agriculture is the key to Indiana's ec... DEBORAH ABBOTT The goal is to create a new use for the manure that's surrounding the town ? as a biofuel. DEBORAH ABBOTT The goal is to create a new use for the manure that's surrounding the town ? as a biofuel, DEBORAH ABBOTT My problem is that I want to smoke the cigar and for someone else to light it. I want to blow out sm... DEBORAH LEVY I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every di... DEBORAH COX DEBORAH SAMPSON One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and ... DEBORAH MOGGACH DEBORAH DAY DEBORAH RANEY DEBORAH NORVILLE Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife... DEBORAH HARKNESS A government that operates under the guise of capitalism does not necessarily mean it is free of the... DEBORAH SIMPSON Ninety percent of board members said they were there to make a difference in the organization. DEBORAH HECHINGER Accessories in general add warmth to a room, but you can switch out your accessories to showcase onl... DEBORAH CARPENTER I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious reade... DEBORAH HARKNESS In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treati... DEBORAH TALL We always see a few orders for wedding invitations with wedding dates around college graduation time... DEBORAH GOMIA DEBORAH SAMPSON U.S. gasoline may be rattling people's cages. We're going to see another steep draw. That, Nigeria a... DEBORAH WHITE I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist,... DEBORAH COX 'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes... DEBORAH MOGGACH It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, i... DEBORAH MOGGACH It's a very quick place to come in. I'm not going on 21 at lunchtime for anything unless it's a dire... DEBORAH DURHAM They said the wreath is still on the door. DEBORAH ROBERTS DEBORAH SAMPSON The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it. DEBORAH COX
I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them. 
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with ot... 
I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... 
To err is human, but it feels divine. 
My biggest inspiration has been romantic relationships, because there's something about the way that... 
I don't know why I always end up talking about my relationships. I try not to. 
The great thing about The Simple Life is that it's a reality show but not based on my reality, ... I... 
And I knew that it was possible he wasn't entirely right for me, but I also knew, in some way... 
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships. 
My purpose in writing has always been to express human potentials and purposes relevant to the Space... 
My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships... 
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. 
To love is to act. 
I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... 
A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself. 
I am not one to chase my prey. It either crosses my lips or is tossed away. 
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in und... 
Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - i... 
There is no joy except in human relationships 
Love is bread and water to the soul. My relationships are quite soggy.
The foundation of relationships is based on the premise of mutual purpose. 
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... 
How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... 
Ah, much deluded! lay aside
I need to be loved. I need to be nurtured. I also need peace and stability in my relationships. I ca... 
The purpose of the book is to see what happened to America; both to the people in it, and to its rel... 
I enjoy creating relationships with my teammates, my friends, and I genuinely care about people. 
My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance. 
I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... 
The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection. 
Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I re... 
To understand is to forgive. 
Relationships shouldn't be disposable. If there's something worth saving - not always the ca... 
Luck certainly has a lot to do with any kind of success. But on the other hand, this is a business i... 
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing,... 
A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. 
To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness. 
The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. I... 
My attention since 'Clueless' has been on family, relationships, activism, the planet, and m... 
The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the ... 
It's not like every song is about the movie, ... The movie is based on relationships: with your fami... 
It's not like every song is about the movie. The movie is based on relationships: with your family, ... 
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. 
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of the... 
People deal with grief in many different ways. And some people in show business parade their relatio... 
I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that... 
For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishi... 
We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken. 
Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I bur... 
Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only... 
Encourage, lift and strenthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us ... 
Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky 
When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen. 
I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good. 
I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it's been one of my goals as a writer to... 
So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts. 
As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded. 
God has blessed me with the gift of cheerfulness. 
Letting go is the hardest part... but you have to look at it through their eyes and realize the pain... 
November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson's at Lisle. This respectable family treated me w...