- Men
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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.
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- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the rhythm of comedy in dramas, if that makes sense. In other words, I don't want to write setup, punch, setup, punch, where the joke dictates the scene; I want to find comedy in which the drama is actually driving the moment in the scene.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I won the World Championship as a novice. They're strong words and most people probably won't like that but I couldn't care.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into Shakespeare and all of that stuff in high school and then got out of it because it got too complicated. But all of those things just helped me to put words together. It gave me a different perspective.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.
- Nov 07, 2020
I walked into this industry blond with red lips, and I will leave this industry blond with red lips. Mark my words.
- Nonsense
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.
- Good Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.
- Stand
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- Nov 07, 2020