Andrew Lakey Quotes
Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.
Quotes to Explore
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
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It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.
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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!
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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
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I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
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If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.
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I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.
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In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
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Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
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Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
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For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
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Women like men who listen. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we speak.
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You don’t have to go through life so dedicated to the cause that you get uptight and develop a bad digestive system.
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In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.
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Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.
