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Deborah Tannen Quotes

In some ways, siblings, and especially sisters, are more influential in your childhood than your parents.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Childhood Parents More Your Than

My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.

Life Together Fun Friends Party

I love being a mommy, and I love being an artist, and I love being a singer and an actress and making a movie - all that stuff I feel very passionate about, so I have a lot of energy for it.

Love Energy Feel Artist Passionate

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

Depression Easy Existence Slide

I bought Doc Martens when I was 13, and I wore them pretty much every day until I was 20. They stank, and my dad wouldn't even let them in the house, but I was completely in love with them.

Suki Waterhouse

Love Day Every Day House Pretty

I always did sing. It's always been something I love to do but it has also been the most private and most secret thing that you don't really want to let the world in on.

Love World You Want Secret Always

I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast.

Morning Son Breakfast Green American

You have principles. You test them as accurately as you can. Eventually, they might break down.

You Down Test Principles Break Them

I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.

Attention Go Fiction Level Like

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

Hard Always Lines Knew Hard Worker

My mother said that we're so lucky to be women. It's not that men are weak. Men are men. We're two completely different animals.

Diane von Furstenberg

Mother Women Men Said Animals Lucky

Metrosexuality is dead. And good riddance to it.

David Zinczenko

I get to hang out with Billy Bob Thornton at his house. We hang out over there every time we're in L.A., because he doesn't go out. We'll hang and he'll play us some of his tunes. It's pretty awesome.

Time House Play Go Awesome Over

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