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.
Quotes to Explore
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.
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Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
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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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Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.
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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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Sit with silence a lot - real silence, where nothing is happening - because you learn so much in those moments of quiet.
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I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word.
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Day and night Balian studied Arabic, both the language of the street corner and the more formal prose of his oneiric teachers. It was not that he mastered the language but rather that it mastered him. He found himself thinking in a language in which nouns shaded imperceptibly into verbs, a language which seemed to discount being in the present, a language with a special verb form for colours and physical deformities, a language of rhythmic syntax and many tiered layers of sense, communicated through hawking stops, gutturals, odd emphases and doublings.
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Make sure you have your own life before becoming someone's wife ~spoken to Oprah in an interview
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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.
