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The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul… — Walter Benjamin
We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems,… — Marjorie Garber
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an… — Lawrence Venuti
Not completely, but neither of us gets mad when the other doesn't text back or call. Life's super-busy. Obviously you know what they're doing, and… — Jennifer Lawrence
Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life, — Taylor Swift
I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things. Endure. Bear up.… — Klaus Kinski
Peopleâ€¦ they donâ€™t write anymore â€“ they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that. You know, it… — David Duchovny
I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can… — Michael Emerson
If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to know about nature… — Bill Nye
I text my girlfriends. I look at Facebook. I check my e-mail. If I'm away from the news cycle more than a few hours, I… — Leelee Sobieski
It seems like the big difference between good art and so-so art lies somewhere in the art's heart's purpose, the agenda of the consciousness behind… — David Foster
Chris [Evans] sent us a text that The Avengers assemble at such and such bar at 9 on Saturday night. That was a good group… — Chris Hemsworth
LA isnâ€™t a walking city, or a subway city, so if someone isnâ€™t in my house or my car weâ€™ll never be together, not even… — Miranda July
I was shooting a scene in my new film, No Strings Attached, in which I say to Natalie Portman, â€œIf you miss me. you canâ€™t… — Ashton Kutcher
I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and… — Neil Patrick Harris
I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability… — Maggie Gyllenhaal
No text message will ever replace the first kiss. — Tom Brokaw
It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text. — Jack O'Connell
The workplace has become a psychological battlefield and the millennials have the upper hand, because they are tech savvy, with every gadget imaginable almost becoming… — Morley Safer
I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely. — Greta Scacchi

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