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Deborah Tannen Quotes

A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sociologist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 7, 1945

Topics

Life Stars Yourself Sister You Like

Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change.

Change Plan Drawing Security System

In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.

Experience Busy Key Working Hard

It shouldn't take an emergency for this Administration to deal with the health care needs of our nation's heroes. Funding the VA and our bringing our troops home safely should never be treated as an afterthought.

Home Health Care Never Heroes Take

I don't want to be famous or recognizable. I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet... I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want.

Stars Writing Internet Famous Look

I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.

Wings Watching Stage Standing Acts

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.

Beyond Torture Close Chinese Other

I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience.

Me Collaboration Spark Trying Create

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.

Robert B. Parker

Life World My Life Choice Important

That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.

Government Why Take Because Use

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Health Best Mind Body Friendly

As an actor, you are always someone else's tool. You can have a connection with them, and you can share their point of view, but ultimately, you are helping them reflect.

View Someone You Point Of View Actor

I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.

Deborah Harkness

Love Hope Reading Generation Kind

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