Words Quotes
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Of all the mediums, theatre is the one where you really need to have something to say - because it's just you, the words, and the space.
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When I knew what I had to do I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts and ate them page by page so I could take my words with me.
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have words.
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In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, alas, so often not making pictures at all, but holding up the camera to do its mimetic worst.
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Paris is life-enhancing for all those reasons we know and all those words that have become so banal.
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I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems.
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Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
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Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.
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To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actual people who are buying the books don't care about them at all.
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Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?
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When you think about it, words can break your heart, or they can change your day.
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If you look at the copies of Churchill's speeches that have survived, they are heavily marked up. He was scrupulous about the impact of each word. He preferred short words and the repetition of short words. He knew everything about the techniques of rhetoric.
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I'll be yours until the stars fall from the sky, yours until the rivers run dry. In other words, until the day I day.
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Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue. Words you can’t have back, so they linger.
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My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.
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To be of few words is natural.
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If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.
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Nelson replayed his last musings to himself, and silently laughed. Listen to you! Jen was right. You're a born philosopher. In other words, full of shit.
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After sex, after coffee, after everything there is to be said - The hovering and beautiful alphabet as we form our first words after making love. And somehow I'm still alive.
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Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don't have with words.
