- Harold
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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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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy is here to bring joy to the world, whether you want to hear the curse words or not.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.
- Few
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a man of few words.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.
- Convey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stage is so important because it teaches me how to convey character with words - how to convey how a character reacts by the way they appear on stage. I can usually tell a playwright from someone who has never written for the stage. Did the character work? Did the dialogue reveal who the character is?
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so true: the fight is won or lost in the gym, and those words really stuck with me throughout my career.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon for the first time and said the famous words, 'That's one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind,' he was talking about all of us. Men and women.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Safety' is a bogus argument regularly used by university officials to keep conservative speakers off of campuses. This isn't because conservatives are dangerous, but because the left often reverts to violence instead of words when presented with ideas it disagrees with.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am proud to be called the Queen of Mean, and I never mince my words - especially when it comes to fat people.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020