We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.
Deborah Tannen
Recitation: by Male by Female
By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events in the book were happening, I knew I'd probably write about them one day. I didn't want to. I'd studied fiction, and I was committed to establishing myself as a fiction writer first.
Jesmyn Ward
TimeMyselfDayMenWritingBook
There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.
Andrea Barrett
MeInterestingNothingWriteExcept
You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.
John Krasinski
FunnyLoveTimeHumorYouPlace
To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry.
John Lasseter
MeHealthyDeadIndustryBeingOnly
Middle America is dying for a voice.
Tomi Lahren
VoiceAmericaDyingMiddle
We're a very close family. Nothing changes.
Rob Kardashian
FamilyNothingChangesCloseVery
You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.
Robin S. Sharma
YourselfYouOthersFirstLead
I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.
Roland Joffe
HistoryFeelOwnSenseOurBegan
One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.
Mary Oliver
PoetryKnowClearMustUnderstood
I honestly never had the biological need to reproduce until I met my husband. But by the same token, even if we were unsuccessful, we were totally okay with adopting.
Lisa Ling
HusbandNeverOkayNeedSameEven
I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.
Don Ellis
MusicI AmAudienceUpExpectLevel
It's weird: making a movie is like life compacted into three months. You have these very intense relationships with people, and you talk to them every day - your editor, the casting people, music people, your actors - then it ends. It's like a circus life.
Dito Montiel
LifeMusicDayPeopleWeirdYou
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