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Learning how to have 'healthy' attachments sounds easy, but in fact, for someone like me who had damaged early relationships, it's like learning to be fluent in Chinese.
Amanda de Cadenet
Me
Learning
Healthy
Fluent
Relationships
Easy
Someone
Fact
Had
Like
How
Sounds
In Fact
Chinese
Who
Early
Damaged
John Hartson, he speaks fluent Welsh and has the tattoos all over him to prove his Welshness. But in my own world, no one is more Welsh than myself.
Craig Bellamy
Myself
World
Own
Fluent
John
My Own
More
No-One
He
Over
Him
Prove
Welsh
His
Than
Tattoos
Speaks
One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.
Dani Shapiro
Me
Old
Fluent
About
Spoke
Until
Years
Hebrew
Stranger
Things
Orthodox
Raised
Jew
Thirteen
I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.
Daryl Hall
Myself
Soul
People
World
Too
Fluent
Musically
Generations
Like
Came
Lot
Up
Different
Wanted
Working
Different People
Languages
Show
Philadelphia
While I am fluent in Hindi, I was a little worried about my accent. So when I was approached for 'Karwaan,' I told them they need to first listen to me speak in Hindi, in case it sounds off.
Dulquer Salmaan
Me
Speak
First
Fluent
Worried
About
Case
Accent
Hindi
Am
Sounds
Off
Listen
While
Little
Them
Need
I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three.
Greg Akcelrod
Reality
Resume
Speak
Three
Fluent
France
Say
Count
Like
Am
Up
Friends
Just
English
Who
Even
I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he used to speak in English. He wanted us to be quite fluent in English, especially when he was trying to correct our behavior; he would do that in English.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
Speak
Behavior
Father
Shifting
Fluent
Our
Correct
Would
Brother
He
Because
Trying
Quite
Wanted
Us
Used
Languages
English
I knew Saleh well, having interviewed and met with him several times. He was a professional Machiavelli, fluent in all forms for political maneuvering.
Jamal Khashoggi
Political
Met
Fluent
Machiavelli
Several
Having
He
Knew
Well
Him
Times
Forms
Professional
You can research until you're falling asleep, but that still doesn't mean you're really fluent in the material.
Jennifer Egan
You
Research
Fluent
Until
Material
Still
Falling
Mean
Really
Asleep
I still catch myself trying to become the object someone imagines me to be, but then there are other times, when I am free, when I am fluent, when I am unimaginable, that I start to feel like somewhere out there is the decolonized love for me, somewhere out there, there is a love that doesn't let any of us be so lonely.
Jenny Zhang
Love
Myself
Me
Free
Lonely
Somewhere
Become
Other
Fluent
Out
Object
Someone
Catch
Feel
Like
Am
Still
Times
Trying
Any
Then
Us
Unimaginable
Start
It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 years ago, I went to Rome for the first time and felt an instant gut connection and wanted to get to know the city.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Time
Me
Language
First
Important
Become
Fluent
City
Gut
About
Instant
Day-To-Day
Know
Another
Felt
First Time
Years
Years Ago
Get
Wanted
Rome
Connection
Functional
We've now got a whole generation of jazz musicians who have been brought up with hip-hop. We've grown up alongside rappers and DJs; we've heard this music all our life. We are as fluent in J Dilla and Dr Dre as we are in Mingus and Coltrane.
Kamasi Washington
Life
Music
Musicians
Generation
Jazz
Fluent
Our
Dre
Rappers
Brought
Coltrane
Alongside
Got
Hip-Hop
Been
Heard
Up
Jazz Musicians
Who
Whole
Grown
Now
Grown-Up
Dr
I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
Karlie Kloss
Speak
Impossible
Fly
Wish
Think
Fluent
Both
Could
Equally
Chinese
I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do a film in German. I'm not quite fluent, but I can get there. And my accent's pretty good. I wouldn't feel too out of my element.
Kirsten Dunst
Good
Language
Too
Fluent
Out
Pretty
Pretty Good
Feel
Accent
Another
German
Germany
Get
Quite
Want
Really
Cool
Dad
Element
Film
I was born in Eastern Europe, in Latvia, and I'm fluent in Russian.
Ksenia Solo
Fluent
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Born
Russian
Europe
I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
Laura Dern
Face
Films
Fluent
France
French
Mess
Make
Becoming
Go
Want
I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the variety of it are astonishing to someone not born there, and I'm convinced that its energy and generosity have somehow rubbed off on me and affected my writing. For the better.
Laurie Graham
Love
Me
Writing
Speak
Strong
Better
Energy
Fluent
Astonishing
Though
Scale
Born
Pretty
Somehow
Someone
Variety
Generosity
Accent
Affected
Off
America
American
Convinced
British
Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.
Luis Fortuno
Parents
Fluent
Totally
Percent
Over
Children
Want
Rico
English
Puerto
Puerto Rico
By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.
Matt Taibbi
Future
People
Political
Language
Own
Too
Fluent
Complex
Those
Crisis
Solved
Only
Crowd
Vast
Vast Majority
Majority
Understand
Wall
Wall Street
American
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Urgent
Turned
Creating
Street
Andrew Warren was a rarity in the CIA's Clandestine Service - African-American, fluent in Arabic, and relatively young for an agent who'd already spent nearly a decade chasing terrorists in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq and Algeria, so deep undercover that few of his friends or family knew the nature of his work.
Michael Hastings
Work
Service
Family
Nature
CIA
Chasing
Few
Young
Algeria
Fluent
Relatively
Spent
Andrew
Arabic
Rarity
Knew
Undercover
Terrorists
His
Iraq
Friends
Decade
Afghanistan
Egypt
African-American
Agent
Warren
Deep
Nearly
When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone or write a letter to a friend. And it's similar with new technologies.
Mitchel Resnick
You
Language
Joke
Become
Fluent
Tell
Someone
Similar
Write
Entry
Journal
New
Friend
New Technologies
Means
Your
Letter
Technologies
I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not 'describe' the pictures; the pictures would not 'illustrate' the words. Together, they would carry a stamp and tell a story.
Muriel Rukeyser
Hope
Together
Words
Fluent
Tell
Carry
Would
Memorable
Pictures
Quick
Story
Stamp
Describe
Illustrate
Copy
I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
Natalie Portman
Speak
Year
Fluent
Once
Visit
Dream
Hebrew
Even
Twice
A college degree was very important for them; it wasn't for me. So I picked English because I'm fluent. I thought it would be the easiest to do.
Nikki Glaser
Me
Thought
Degree
College
Important
Fluent
Easiest
Would
Would-Be
College Degree
Picked
Because
Very
Them
English
I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have it. They're tone-deaf, even though they're very fluent. It's an ability, like anything else, being a doctor or a veterinarian, or a musician.
Paula Fox
People
Doctor
Fluent
Else
Though
Musician
Ability
Voice
Write
Writer
Like
Know
Makes
Very
Veterinarian
Being
Anything
Anything Else
Who
Even
Dozens
Things
The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.
Richard Blackmore
Home
Speed
Fluent
Summer
Dreamed
Never
Had
Over
Motion
Smoothly
Off
Ambient
Graceful
Going
Swallow
Breeze
Swift
Flitting
Flowers
Set
Soft
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