Language Quotes
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
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C is the assembly language of Tcl.
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When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.
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The gospel gives me hope, and hope is not a language the dark voices understand.
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I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.
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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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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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Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.
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I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.
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Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.
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It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.
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Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.
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Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.
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My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.
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Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.
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China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.
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The whole world has changed, so you just stay current with the world. There's nothing different in my language of how I say things.
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As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.
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Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy ground of reality, imagination spins marvelous patterns.
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
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When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you.
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The questioner has to come to an end. It is the questioner that creates the answer; and the questioner comes into being from the answer, otherwise there is no questioner.
