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My job is not to frighten children, but sometimes addressing fears and concerns within the safe boundaries of a picture book can fill me with an awesome responsibility to be as truthful and transparent as possible.

~Debi Gliori

Topics: Addressing Awesome Book Boundaries Children Concerns Fears Fill Frighten Job Me Picture Picture Book Possible Responsibility Safe Sometimes Transparent Truthful Within

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My husband wrote me love letters while I was on location in Canada and pregnant. They turned into being about food, and it turned it into a cookbook. He called it 'The Tuscan Cookbook for the Pregnant Male.' It was kind of genius. When I took it a book agent, he was like, 'Men don't buy cookbooks.'

~Debi Mazar

Topics: About Agent Being Book Buy Canada Cookbook Cookbooks Food Genius He Husband Kind Letters Like Location Love Male Me Men Pregnant Took Turned While Wrote

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I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

~Deborah Copaken Kogan

Topics: Book First House Memoir Nbc Photographer Random Salary Sell Twice War Years

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'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes off - it opened doors on to whole other worlds.

~Deborah Moggach

Topics: Book Change Did Doors Fever Happens Life My Life Off Opened Other Sometimes Takes Thing Tulip Whole Worlds

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I am the youngest of three girls. My first linguistics book was a study of 'New York Jewish conversational style'. That was my dissertation.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Am Book Conversational Dissertation First Girl Jewish Linguistics New New York Study Style Three York Youngest I Am

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Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Any Ask Attention Book Conversation Directions First Insight Issue Just Like Men Most Perhaps Question Stop Understand Which Why Women Women And Men You

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Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It's like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story.

~Deborah Wiles

Topics: About Alone Ancient Art Been Better Book Cave Centuries Create Drawing Elements Even Find Grab Graphic Kids Like Need Onto Perfect Picture Picture Book Pictures Say Something Stand Stories Story Telling Text They Say Those Together Visuals Walls Way Who

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Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons.

~Debra Granik

Topics: Book Every Filmmaker Films Get Host Made Reasons Short Whole

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The time that it takes to make the feature is really contingent on the feature being sort of almost ready-made - so coming to a book is more ready-made. You at least have the story that someone sorted out.

~Debra Granik

Topics: Almost Being Book Coming Contingent Feature Least Make More Out Ready-Made Really Someone Sort Sorted Story Takes Time You

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Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV.

~Debra Messing

Topics: Absolutely Am Book Court Dog Friends Husband Obsessed Reading Spending Spending Time Stop Time Tv Watching I Am

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