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- Nov 07, 2020
Speak Quotes
The languages, and limits, people speak within.
A couple of these speak quotes are about language and identity specifically, children translating for family members, and a cultural background where the expected native language was never actually spoken at home. The Language collection covers this in more depth.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, OK, when we first got old enough to hunt, this was his rule: If you shoot it, you come home and eat it. Otherwise you do not shoot it, OK? You don't just kill something for the sake of killing it, OK? If you kill it, you gotta grill it, so to speak.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Richie' is so special to me. It's because this was the first Tamil film that I had auditioned for. I did not know the language well. I was an absolute newcomer. But I had the determination to speak in Tamil, as it was a very good role and I didn't want to let it go.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must work harder to lessen inequalities. Only by doing so can we speak with credibility and moral authority to other countries and the People's Republic of China.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't speak for all queens, but Sharon Needles is definitely a different entity from me as Aaron Coady.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't speak for everyone, but the kind of comedy that makes me laugh are the ones that kind of make me cringe, and kind of make me look inside my own fears, my own anxieties.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the advice of my U.K. publishers, I chose a sexless anonymity and published my first five books under the semi-pseudonym, S. J. Bolton. I was happy. I could hide behind a genderless, classless persona and let my creepy, psychological murder-mysteries speak for themselves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a problem with athletes speaking up, but I want to make sure before they speak up, they read up.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can speak for myself personally, I loved ECW. I loved everything about it. I loved the crew, I loved the fans, the style, working there.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really see any difference between Pakistani people and the Indians. We eat the same food, we speak the same language. I don't really see any difference.
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- Nov 07, 2020