Paul Muldoon Quotes
I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.
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Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.
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Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
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Coffee is a language in itself.
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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.
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Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
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Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.
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That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
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I was always the new kid, and I got to know the language and the politics of being on the outside, looking in. Never being in the clique - always being a student of the clique, a subversive, and I could look around and identify the other guys who were excluded.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.
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In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.
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I love language, and I love the failure of language.
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China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.
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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
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Lindemann is cleverly playing with language, rhyme and meter to generate insight in ways that only the best poets really can.
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Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.
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The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.
