- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words Quotes
Words carry more weight than we plan for.
This set spans the everyday and the pointed - a playful warning about overusing absolute words like "always" and "never," and a reminder that English still has more words than any one person can hold in their head. Related reading in Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Xi has made plain that he will no longer tolerate hearing the words 'human rights' spoken out loud in the same sentence with the word 'China.'
- Coloring
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I know I'm going to work on a cover, I practically run to the computer! After working with words for so long, it's lovely to do something that's creative yet also the professional equivalent of scribbling in your own coloring book.
- Romance
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two words that send romance authors into spasms of rapture: 'Downton Abbey.'
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
- Chaplin
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved silent movies. I recently saw 'Tilly's Punctured Romance' at the Academy, which is the first comedy made with Charlie Chaplin in 1914, and I sat there, and I couldn't believe that the entire audience of 2,000 people were laughing that hard from a movie made in 1914 - and there were no words; it was all faces.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the lover must struggle for words.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement.
- Indeed
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- Nov 07, 2020