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Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#alone #balancing #communication #concert #conflicting

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#friends #involved #out #real #real friends

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#film #grand #important time #life #most

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#engage #extended #find #important #long

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#command #consider #extends #grows #i

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#alone #centered #i #kinds #large

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. ↗

— Nahum Tate

#friendship #greatness #knows #men #private

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him. ↗

— Sharon Tate

#believe #good #him #i #lies

I think all jocks have a sensitive side. It's just, will they show it to anybody? Will they let their guard down and stop being tough and the cool jock guy around their friends, or just relax? I don't know if it's best to say opening up, but just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#anybody #around #being #best #cool

Well, the first and only time I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again. But I know a lot about guns, so I go to the gun range and stuff like that with friends sometimes. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#again #deer #first #friends #go