Deborah Tannen Quotes

As a sociolinguist, I want to know how cultural differences affect the ways people talk and listen. My research method, inspired by the work of Robin Lakoff and John Gumperz of the University of California at Berkeley, is sociolinguistic microanalysis. I tape-record and transcribe naturally occurring conversations.

Deborah Tannen

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I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.

Jenny Lewis

My OwnNeverOutOwnBecauseJust

My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.

Meryl Streep

BelieveVoiceEnoughYouFeeling

It's a cliche to say this now, but to me, 'The Sopranos' is like Dickens. It's able to take this very focused look at something but make it epic and profound.

Stephen Merchant

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Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

Sparky Anderson

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I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun.

Shirley Manson

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In Austin, the eco-capital of Texas, residents tend to favor native plants and wildflowers to the sculpted lawns of the Palm Springs variety.

Douglas Brinkley

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Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

Dean Koontz

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If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

David Tennant

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I love sweets. I have a tendency to go out at, like, 11 P.M. and get a giant piece of cake because I'm craving it. The problem is if you eat a big piece of cake that late, you wake up in the morning feeling really sick.

Brendan Robinson

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You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much my modus operandi and pretty much my principal position, such as it is.

Chuck Close

WorkGreatArtYouPrincipalWill

I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun.

Bob Schieffer

GreatServiceFunPublic ServiceYou

I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

Peter Blair Henry

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