Deborah Tannen
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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
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Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. 
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. 
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. 
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. 
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Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allo... 
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To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. 
I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are iron... 
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Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation. 
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When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen. 
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I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an err... 
I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it's been one of my goals as a writer to... 
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God has blessed me with the gift of cheerfulness. 
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