Suzanne Vega Quotes
If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
Ford Frick
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'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
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I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
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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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A gloss is a total system of perception and language.
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'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.
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People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.
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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
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I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
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The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
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A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.
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There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.
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Discovering L.A., in particular in the early '80s, was pretty spectacular; it was fun and carefree, and there was not nearly as much traffic as exists today. It was very much the last gasps of the Beach Boys' ideal view of L.A.: sun, the beach, cars, blondes, etc.
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If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.
