David Meltzer Quotes
I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.David Meltzer
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I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.
Randee Heller -
Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap.
Oveta Culp Hobby -
It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.
Kate Christensen -
Coffee is a language in itself.
Jackie Chan -
I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
Sally Kirkland
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Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
Ian Hacking -
I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
Karlie Kloss -
Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.
Jacki Weaver -
I decided to do everything around fashion but fashion itself, and that's accessories.
Paloma Picasso -
If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.
Kari Matchett -
There were people in Cuba who truly had substantial things to gain from revolution. There were people who had things to lose in the revolution. I think they're all allowed to have their memories of what happened.
Rachel Kushner
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I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.
Patrick Stewart -
Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.
Nadia Comaneci -
Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Larry Wall -
If you can't hear language, you won't be able to understand language and experience normal development. Every minute spent without hearing is a minute a child is not getting back.
Kassie DePaiva -
In true prose everything must be underlined.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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In their broad Augustan day, Scottish miners were legally still serfs, just as miners in Greece had always been slaves; and neither civilization thought anything amiss. ...It was the engine, it was the horsepower which created consideration for the horse; and the Industrial Revolution which created our sensibility.
Jacob Bronowski -
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
Rita Mae Brown -
I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.
Gary Oldman -
Don't worry, we can fix that. I can fix that.
Victoria Gotti -
The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell.
Haruki Murakami -
I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.
David Meltzer