- Nothing
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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
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I type 40 words per minute on a normal computer with my left foot. And with two cups of coffee, I can do 53 words per minute.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken by copycat stories with simpler headlines. Deadspin's headline was 118 characters. Vital information - 'hoax' - was one of the words that was cut off.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
What does 'Ngaio' mean? I don't know. Like many Maori words, it has a number of meanings - clever, light on the water, a little bug - but I don't know which my parents had in mind.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Songs are life in 80 words or less.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I get started each day, I read through and correct the previous day's 2,000 words, then start on the next. As I reach that figure, I try to simply stop and not go on until reaching a natural break. If you just stop while you know what you're going to write next, it's easier to get going again the next day.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you reach the editing stage, it is often the case that you can get too involved with the story to detect errors. You can see words in your head that aren't actually there on the page, sentences blur together and errors escape you, and you follow plot threads and see only the images in your skull.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020