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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a man of few words.
- Family-Friendly
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the beginning, music has been the chosen way to express feelings that words alone can't.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realised that the idea of enforcing sharia is not consistent with Islam as it's been practised from the beginning. In other words, Islam has always been secular, and I had been totally ignorant of the fact.
- Looking Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I hit college, my secret shame was the reason I was an actor was my own words sort of dried up. I stopped writing. I stopped being able to form my own vision. That's actually what my first feature is about - looking back at two different selves.
- Heartbeat
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
- Universe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.
- Nov 07, 2020
Words are just words.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rattle around in one of the big words.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's why actors are so great and why they earn so much money. They take away the anxious necessity to find the right words.
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- Nov 07, 2020