Deborah Tannen
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ANDREA KAY It is important to note that the relevant factor to sexual harassment in this story is not gender id... KATE BORNSTEIN C. JOYBELL C. AYELET WALDMAN We're trying to accommodate them as best we can, because of the objective of this group, which is to... DEWEY POTTER GINA BARRECA THEODORE ROOSEVELT ANNA KENDRICK DEYTH BANGER EMMA WATSON JENNY ZHANG GEORGE MACDONALD It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to... GEORGE E. MACDONALD MARILYN MONROE CHELSEA CLINTON C. JOYBELL C. Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light. LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL JENNIE JEROME CHURCHILL We just tend to refer to him that way. I've never really thought about it. JULIE FIORENZA Our friends believed in us and in what I was doing. Perhaps they looked at us as some sort of an ide... 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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... 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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 ... 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True best friends never fail on understanding, forgiving, and being there for one another no matter ... 
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... 
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us. 
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... 
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are... 
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are... 
If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was ofte... 
When you hear bosses talk about their best salespeople, they often refer to them as rock stars. It&#... 
The marriages come and go but your friendships stay, which is the opposite of what it used to be, so... 
We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have ... 
Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insec... 
It's interesting that, given our culture has so many words that refer to women in a truly deroga... 
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong. 
This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ... 
I believe that when a woman is given the chance to come to the defense of another woman, that is an ... 
I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your oppo... 
How about "diamonds are a girl's best friends"? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, ... 
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I... 
*Some dudes like to say that men have the instinct to spread their seed, while women are supposed to... 
That's SHIT!
Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be stron... 
From that point on, I would refer to him as "your uncle" and he would mostly refer to me as "your au... 
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to... 
One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females... 
I certainly believe that all of my friends should have the right, as Marc and I did, to marry their ... 
I believe in women uplifting other women. The only thing that makes our gender weaker, is the fact t... 
Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light. 
As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and ac... 
,the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do. 
I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best com... 
For those who have walked through the fires of hell and rather than fall to its flames, have emerged... 
What you refer to as your 
you wait for flowers and gifts from us on this day. Of course you have deserved them, deserved them ... 
We really don't have enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us. 
Especially today, with the Internet, you have people who have best friends that they never met, with... 
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, place them in their best light. 
You are well aware that it is not numbers or strength that bring the victories in war. No, it is whe... 
There is but one nation on the globe from which we have anything serious to apprehend, but that is t... 
While it is desirable to build up the colored race, we must not sacrifice our best and purest white ... 
I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of ... 
Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if w... 
I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - ... 
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Ame... 
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Ame... 
You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusiv... 
As the demographic makeup of this pool changes, it seems entirely likely that the under-representati... 
When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting ... 
Goodbye” is the best ever gift that you can receive from worse friends. Never hesitate to wave it ... 
I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way. 
Thought we were supposed to be friends? Best friends?”
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us 
I'm in a car so much on tour that I often just ask my friends to DJ and ask them what they like.... 
Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think... 
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 became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the las... 
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... 
The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have e...