David Crystal Quotes
Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.David Crystal
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
Frances McDormand -
I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
Frances McDormand -
I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
P. C. Cast -
I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
Hamlin Garland -
If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
Caitlin Rose
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
T. J. Miller -
I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
Frances McDormand -
We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.
Madeleine Stowe -
I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
Mackenzie Astin -
War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
Lapo Elkann -
A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
Pat Conroy -
I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
Jack Reynor -
I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
Zac Efron -
I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
Vikas Swarup -
There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
Val McDermid
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I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It should look like a drama.
Peter Billingsley -
I mean do women like to get the crap scared out of them at the movies? Sure. Of course.
Jerry O'Connell -
Everyone wants to call wrestling 'the business.' Why don't you treat it like a business? I don't care if you're running a diner, if you're running a car wash or a wrestling company. It's all business.
Kevin Nash -
I am guilty of buying way too many gadgets - way too many! And though I try to keep things nice and orderly, sometimes I get distracted and stick saucepans where the stockpots should go.
Paula Deen -
Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.
David Crystal