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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
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the copies of Churchill's speeches that have survived, they are heavily marked up. He was scrupulous about the impact of each word. He preferred short words and the repetition of short words. He knew everything about the techniques of rhetoric.
- Archbishop
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
What excites me about picture books is the gap between pictures and words. Sometimes the pictures can tell a slightly different story or tell more about the story, about how someone is thinking or feeling.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.
- Nov 07, 2020
So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
- Photograph
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- Nov 07, 2020
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My words must be powerful to make people so afraid of them. It's rather nice to feel I have power.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.
- Conveniently
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- Nov 07, 2020