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I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us,… — Daniel Day-Lewis
I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death… — Laura Linney
The apostle Paul never seemed to exhaust the topic of grace - what makes us think we can? He just kept coming at it and… — Max Lucado
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will… — Horace Mann
The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are… — Steve Martin
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. — Karl Marx
I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .' — Wilson Mizner
When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina… — Mandy Moore
The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny. — Nathan Myhrvold
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say,… — Barack Obama
Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say the… — Susan Orlean
Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So… — Steven Pinker
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. — Alexander Pope
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without… — Terry Pratchett
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them. — Hugh Prather
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. — Ayn Rand
John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working… — Tom Robbins
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence. — Alan Rickman
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. — Salman Rushdie
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word… — Salman Rushdie
When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've… — Salman Rushdie
So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some… — George Saunders
For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing.… — Wallace Shawn
Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the… — Lysander Spooner
Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. — Cat Stevens

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