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Text Quotes
Words that keep generating meaning.
These text quotes explore what makes a text endure: its capacity to yield fresh readings, its role in spreading cultural forms, and an actor's discipline in trusting the script. See related lines in Being quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the 'text' in literary terms.
- Committing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately, as an actor, it comes down to committing to the text in the script.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I preaches, I has just one text to preach from, an' I always preaches from this one. My text is, 'When I found Jesus.'
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1978, there was a 14-year-old boy working in Newark. He did in fact create the inter-office mail system and called it email. What they did before 1978 was text messaging.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational.
- Accurately
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.
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- Nov 07, 2020