- Great
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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
- Difficult Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that I didn't speak English I think was the most difficult thing for me.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I normally speak by moving my hands, and I'm very expressive with my face - something Cuban, I guess.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why am I a liberal? Because I don't forget that I'm an immigrant and that I'm a Hispanic and that I have a Latin accent when I speak English, and I want to defend those who get racially profiled by people who would discriminate against us?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Republicans need to speak up, and people need to know that not all Republicans are represented by the hostile, vile voice of Donald Trump.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've forgotten a lot of things. I've forgotten how to play the piano and how to speak Arabic, though I studied it for two years.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't even grown up on Hindi films because my Hindi is bad; I am a Parsi and we speak English or Gujarati at home.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had an actor squeeze himself up against me during a shot in a song and whisper in my ear that he was so glad that I was in the film with him. When I threw him off me and refused to speak to him again, he made my experience miserable.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was so shy, I couldn't stand up in front of people and speak. Now I'm in the next big three Bollywood movies.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jimmy Baldwin was the creator of contemporary American speech even before Americans could dig that. He created it so we could speak to each other at unimaginable intensities of feeling, so we could make sense to each other at yet higher and higher tempos.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though many Indians can read or speak English, for most, it is not their first language. At the office, we speak in English, but we consume our culture in our own language.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people speak of BJP being an 'election machine,' it is actually development and progress that is BJP's electoral machine.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A long, negative review I wrote of Rushdie's novel 'Fury' earned me a rebuke from the writer: He told an administrator at the college where I teach, and who had invited Rushdie to come speak, that he wouldn't share the stage with me.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Bombay-London-New York,' I speak of the ways in which the 'soft' emotion of nostalgia is turned into the 'hard' emotion of fundamentalism.
- Situation
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- Nov 07, 2020