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The contrasting focus on connection versus hierarchy also sheds light on innumerable adult conversations - and frustrations. Say a woman tells another about a personal problem and hears in response, 'I know how you feel' or 'the same thing happens to me.' The resulting 'troubles talk' reinforces the connection between them. Deborah Tannen

Me You Woman Problem Light Focus Same Thing Say Response Hierarchy Tells About Resulting Troubles Adult Feel Between Know Talk Also Sheds Another How Hears Versus Contrasting Personal Same Happens Conversations Frustrations Them Connection Thing

The Pavlovian view of women voters - 'plug the words in, and they will respond' - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands. Deborah Tannen

Man Woman Women Communication Problem Words Chill Will Down Respond Sexes Tells Plug Spine About Something He Written Between Like Voters Know She Him Because Understands Sounds Fix Sends Listen Just Want Wants View Her Adaptation

Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write. Dennis Brown

Love You Song Vibes Tells Give Write Songs Know Hearing Heartbroken Just Either Rhythm Might Certain Militant

What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing. Dewitt Bodeen

Husband Nothing Tell Tells Him Does

Everyone tells me I need to do comedy. It's never something that crossed my mind, but to be able to do a true comedy and make people laugh, that would be great. Dexter Darden

Great Me People Comedy Mind Everyone Laugh Tells Would Would-Be Able Crossed Something Never True Make Need

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy. Diana Wynne Jones

Me You Somebody Joke Everybody Humour Way Mini Tells See Seems Emotionally Know Well Always Off Intellectually Situations Whether Fantasy Sane Noticed Standing Keeping Nearly

Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve. Dick Cavett

Good Anger Pressure Reading Valve Tells Unpleasant Good Thing Wrong Limited Subject Anything Us Really Even Thing Amount

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. Don Marquis

Too Much Will Too Tell Tells Blood Often Much

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. Don Marquis

No one should be forced to violate one's conscience, nor should anyone be forced out of service of the common good because there are some things their conscience tells them they cannot do. Donald Wuerl

Service Good Out Tells Some Some Things No-One Forced Because Nor Common Anyone Common Good Cannot Them Should Conscience Things Violate

People who know your work and know your personality, they know your strengths and weaknesses. A director like Guillermo del Toro, he knows more about me than I do. I trust him when he tells me what part I'm going to be playing in something, because he's envisioned that that can only be done by me. He knows it. Doug Jones

Work Me Director Trust People Personality Tells Weaknesses About Something More Only He Part Like Envisioned Know Him Knows Because Than Done Going Your Who Playing Strengths

Of course I want to look good in clothes. And it never makes me feel good when somebody who has an insane figure tells me, 'I eat whatever I want.' Drew Barrymore

Good Me Feel Good Somebody Whatever Clothes Insane Tells Eat Never Feel Look Course Makes Want Figure Who

No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that. Drew Houston

You Tells Born No-One CEO

Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient. Duane Michals

Life Work Death Myself Nature Me My Life Nothing Sleeping State Corpse Photograph Dream Tells Photographers Find Temporal About Someone Facts Itself Very Want Interested Transient Event Thing Things

Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this. E. Stanley Jones

You Stream Parents First Birth Tells Give Through He New First Of All Blood Get Cannot Us Much Your Here Heredity

My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my home, I'm not very democratic. I think of myself as a benevolent dictator. Edgar Mitchell

Myself Home Me Wife Think Benevolent Tells Admit Democratic Pig Sort Am Male Very Dictator Office

When you write something, at first you might feel very defensive and protective of every single thing, but after a while, you just see what works and what doesn't. Sometimes you do test screenings, and an audience tells you that, or sometimes you eventually just go, 'Let's cut the joke out.' Edgar Wright

You Sometimes Joke First Single Every Defensive Out Tells See Something Write Feel Protective Audience Single Thing Test Go Very Just After While Might Cut Works Eventually Thing Every Single Thing

I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me I sing other people's songs better than my own. She says I loosen up and give the songs a different feel. El DeBarge

Me People Better Sister Own Other Hung Says Tells Give My Own Fact Writers Songs Feel Like Sing She Loosen Always Up Than Bunny Different In Fact Using

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes. Elaine Stritch

Government Me Stage Tells About Talking Understand Am Want Taxes

I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don't read reviews is a liar. Elaine Stritch

Love You Liar Tells Read Reviews Anybody Who

When you're walking around in Shanghai, I called it the City of Near Misses, because they do not stop for pedestrians. And the pedestrians do not have the right of way. It's those little things that no one tells you. Eliza Coupe

You Little Things Pedestrian Way Those Tells City Shanghai No-One Misses Because Around Walking Stop Little Near Right Things

My older brother always tells me I changed as a person when I saw 'Ace Ventura.' Because when I saw 'Ace Ventura', I became obsessed. I watched the movie as many times as I had to - back then, you couldn't go on the Internet and find the script - so I watched it as many times as I could to write my own script of 'Ace Ventura.' Eliza Coupe

Me You Internet Own Older Changed Back Saw Tells Find Brother My Own Could Write Had Obsessed Became Because Always Go Times Person Ace Movie Script Then Many Older Brother Watched

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