I know it sounds silly, but in auditions for film or TV, the words aren't as important - you need to get… — Morgan Saylor Copy Share Image
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The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled… — Geoffrey K. Pullum Copy Share Image
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I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
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He [Hern] calls his center the Boulder Abortion Clinic and he said specifically that he didn't want to hide that word. I'm… — John H Richardson Copy Share Image
The illuminated ones can take any form -- a man, a woman, a child, an elder, or even a dog. It is… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
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In my school, the library was forbidden. I was accused of turning on the radiator so that the [class]room was uninhabitable and… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
“The sky is blue,' he said, 'the grass is green.' Looking up, he saw that, on the contrary, the sky is like… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I met people that I couldn't talk to - they didn't speak Spanish or English - but they knew my songs. That's… — Prince Royce Copy Share Image
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If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
The experienced writer says to the anguished novice: 'Just do it; get something, anything, on to the screen or page, just establish… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
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I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people get intimidated by the language of music, but everyone owns music. I think there's nothing standing… — Jeanine Tesori Copy Share Image
Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
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I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
I used to teach. I quote American history and I love words. I've read the dictionary I don't know how many times… — Jackee Harry Copy Share Image
However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I remember politicians in Northern Ireland were sometimes called 'verbal incendiarists,' as they didn't actually do anything but they said certain things.… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
Modern acting is method acting, most of it. And there are sort of different schools, so I guess I'm not really from… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
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You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
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Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
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![“He [Hern] calls his center the Boulder Abortion Clinic and he said specifically that he didn't want to hide that word. I'm deeply opposed to the politicization of language and try to avoid it when I possibly can - I don't like being manipulated by terms like pro-life or pro-choice. To me…” quote by John H Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/f43/john-h-richardson-38485_abortion_he-hern-calls-his-center-the-boulder-abo_1428079.jpg)
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