- 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
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trinidadians love speaking their own English; it's full of poetic forms and can be playful and lyrical and comical. Trinidadians are verbal acrobats, and I love being on the island just to hear the people speak.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't speak English, so I cannot foresee a career in Hollywood. But I do see myself more and more as an actress rather than a dancer.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really wanted to speak English because I started touring the world, and I wanted to communicate with people directly.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I speak for myself... I am here to tell stories. I'm here to be an actor and not a superstar. If, in the process, that ends up happening, great. But that's not my endgoal.
- If I Could
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- Nov 07, 2020
England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.
- Woman
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid it's adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mouth, I started whistling through it, and as a 32-year-old woman, whistling while you speak in sort of annoying.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020