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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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.
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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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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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While the children laughed I was always afraid Of the Smile of the clown So I close my eyes Till I can't see the light And I hide from the sound We're two of a Kind Silence and I We need a chance to talk things over Two of a kind Silence and I
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.
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We believe we can also show that words do not have exactly the same psychic "weight" depending on whether they belong to the language of reverie or to the language of daylight life-to rested language or language under surveillance-to the language of natural poetry or to the language hammered out by authoritarian prosodies.
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What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?
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You never want to defend a joke. People get to choose whether or not to laugh and whether or not they think something is funny.
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How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.
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Given that the dreaming brain must perform these remarkable contortions - creating a world, living in it, responding to it, and then carefully blocking all the responses in a manner that does not cross the threshold of awareness - it is no wonder that this dreaming brain seems to be more active than the waking brain.
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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.
