Deborah Tannen Quotes

The word 'sister' evokes an ideal of connection and support, like the friendships that made Rebecca Wells's 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood' and Ann Brashares's 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants' into best-selling novels and successful films.

Deborah Tannen

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SupportSisterConnectionSecrets

Time will change who is in power.

Jimmy Gomez

ChangePowerTimeWillWho

What is crucial is there be laws.

Andre Weil

LawsCrucial

I'm not deluded enough to think that everyone who knows my name is a listener. You know, I hope that part of that interest - part of that public interest - has to do with me still making records that people like.

John Mayer

HopePeopleMeThinkNameEnough

I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write jokes independently of the narrative, then I try to fit them in.

Jeff Kinney

TryWriteJokesUpNarrativeCome

With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.

John Travolta

YouActingMatterTellScreenWho

The liberals love you until you say something critical about Hillary Clinton.

Ana Navarro

LoveYouSaySomethingCritical

Dear God, let this be just a bad nightmare.

Roy Horn

GodBadJustNightmareDear

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

Roy Moore

GovernmentYouRightsTakeGive

The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.

Luke Evans

GreatTrainNeverRobberyDiminished

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

Cornelia Funke

HomeBookLibraryDifferentKids

It's my instinct more than my voice that keeps me on top.

Conway Twitty

MeVoiceMoreTopInstinctThan

Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

Bradley Whitford

StupidInternJustAffairThing

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