Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
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We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated 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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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
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I discovered the theater when I was in the first grade.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.
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I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
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My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
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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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I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of... that gives you a certain power over it.
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Maybe Trump isn't a racist in private. But he's sure acting like one in public. And his body language is corroborating the evidence.
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Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.
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There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people like you, or anybody I meet who's in this, that keeps me going.
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Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
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I think that it's going to be interesting to see where Beyonce's career goes.
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I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.
