Language Quotes
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Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
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I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for the music of language, for what we call poetry, for the sound effects and the way that the sound can produce sensual feeling at odds with or consonant with the content of the work. Your work is also gorgeous writing. It's very unfortunate when you open a novel that everybody's loving and it's just, you know, an excruciatingly bad sentence.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.
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To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
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The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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A gloss is a total system of perception and language.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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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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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
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Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.
