Gwen Stefani Quotes
When you write a great song, it just blows you away. When you write a song that connects with people around the world - I mean like it actually transcends language barriers - you see how it can affect people, and it's quite a tall order to follow up on.
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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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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 dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.
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With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.
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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 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 write romance because I love to read romance.
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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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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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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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To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.
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The federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.
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When you write a great song, it just blows you away. When you write a song that connects with people around the world - I mean like it actually transcends language barriers - you see how it can affect people, and it's quite a tall order to follow up on.
