"The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familiar territory - places I had lived, people I knew, my life as an actor in New York - and many were prompted by or grounded in personal experience."

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Debra Dean

#New York Quotes #Fall Quotes #Writing Quotes

“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.”
“Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.”
“I begged my mom to let me start skating.”
“I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting. Most of us didnâ€™t think that. What we did learn is this â€” itâ€™s a hostage thatâ€™s worth ransoming. And it focuses the Congress on something that must be done.”

Source : "In debt deal, the triumph of the old Washington" by David A. Fahrenthold, Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane, www.washingtonpost.com. August 3, 2011.
“Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.”
“People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. BecauHse people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe itâ€™s true, or because they are afraid it might be true.”
“With plants, persuasion is better than force.”
“I don't like to get too involved in the idea that "I'm a role model" and that everything I do is right. I don't think that's the case at all, but I think who I am at my core, and what I represent at my core, is something that is meaningful, and can be something that other people can gain inspiration from.”

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