William Labov Quotes
However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.
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I was introduced to cinema by C-grade films that played in my village, Budhana, in UP. Only films by Dada Kondke, Mahendra Sandhu, and Kanti Shah were available.
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The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.
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I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
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I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.
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There are ways that women absorb situations, and I think women are different kinds of listeners. They're different in terms of how they parse out problem solving.
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Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power.
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Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.
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Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
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We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.
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However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.
