Words Quotes
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I swallowed down all the words, until they knotted up in my throat, and now I'm choking on I love you's and please don't go's.
Jessica Katoff
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
Tamara Tunie
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
Dani Shapiro
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
Nathan Fillion
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Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.
Lao Tzu
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I used to spell everything phonetically, or I would have little tricks for words I could not figure out.
James William Middleton
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I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important.
Chelsea Clinton
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My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.
Yoko Ono
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If you told me to cry for you I could If you told me to die for you I would Take a look at my face There's no price I won't pay To say these words to you
Jon Bon Jovi
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right.
Stevie Wonder
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
Sappho
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I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.
Xenophon
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The meanings of words and the uses of words come from practice from the way people in a given culture use those words.
Deborah Tannen
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Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.
Nancy Duarte
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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
Nas
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A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or glucose that essentially lights up specific and different areas of the brain being activated when a person speaks words or sees words or hears words, revealing the organic location for areas of behavioral malfunction.
Floyd Skloot
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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
Hal Sparks
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I didn't say that my son died for Israel. I've never said that. I saw somebody wrote that and it wasn't my words. Those aren't even words that I would say.
Cindy Sheehan
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
Aaron Copland
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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
Hermann Hesse
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I have this peculiar ability to be able to anticipate mouth movements on screen and fill them with words or sound.
Frank Welker
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
Damon Galgut