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Deborah Eisenberg Quotes

It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech.

Deborah Eisenberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: November 20, 1945

Topics

Speech Flow More Dialogue Easier

The law is for everyone.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.

Time Cats Lion People Think You

Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.

Robert Herjavec

Lie People You Want Will Mean

How many big American films do you see where the heroine has no vanity whatsoever?

Stellan Skarsgard

American You Vanity See Big Where

I dreamed of a future as a muscular, tanned, kibbutznik, who plowed the fertile fields of the Jezreel Valley in the day, sang religiously in the dining hall in the evening, and fiercely guarded the farmland at night, riding a noble horse.

Future Day Night Evening Horse

I travel and climb about eight months a year. That's pretty great training in itself. When I am home, I do a lot of bouldering, gym climbing, and specific strength training in a effort to get stronger for climbing.

Strength Home Great Travel Training

You have to stand on your own two feet.

Feet Stand You Two Own Your

Trajectories aren't linear. Life's just a roller coaster. If you're getting a chance to do cool stuff, and it's varied stuff, just enjoy it. I guess I'm a believer in the randomness of life rather than it being a linear trajectory or an arc, a consistent smooth arc, towards anything.

Life Cool Chance Enjoy You Anything

Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.

Greatness People Me You Movies Just

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

Leadership Think Country Washington

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

Age Art College End Near Conceived

New York is about as cosmopolitan as it gets. It's a fairly mixed and woke town, so there weren't a lot of situations growing up where I felt like the outsider or the alien.

New York Growing Up Alien Growing Up

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