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I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader. Dick Schaap

Game Language Clever Hook Intrigue Gifts Observant Leads New Reader Came Up Being Stories English English Language Many Using

I was also in love with the English language. Dick Schaap

Love Language Also English English Language

I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's. Diego Della Valle

People Remember Old Language Too Many People Looking Beginning Every Too Easy Pronounce Since Name Sound Were Very Shortened Then Asking Used English Who Many

After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I had to learn Russian as my first foreign language in school. I found this quite difficult because of the Cyrillic alphabet, but as time went on, I seemed to do all right. Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball. Dikembe Mutombo

Speak Language Mind Other Tried Some Cross Never Court Any Just Reason English Even Playing Basketball Basketball Court

I am my father's daughter: I have his language, his expressions. Dinah Manoff

Language Father Daughter Am His Expressions

As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life. Dinaw Mengestu

Life Me Emotions World Language Understanding Characters Ability Vital Something Both Writer Writers Most Render Fictional Literature Landscape Original

The language of my books has shaped me as a man. Don DeLillo

Me Man Language Books Shaped

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to. Don DeLillo

Vision Language Ways Structure Writers True Alter Narrative Terror Terrorist Infiltrate Used Aspire Deep Acts Consciousness

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off. Donald E. Westlake

Best Words Old Language Feeling Sense Else Characters More Cast Gives Both More Than Anything Almost Leads Off Campfire Than Anything Anything Else Story Which Choice Creates Should Actor Start

Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution. Donald Johanson

Art Survival Culture Language Animals Our Evolution Combination Said Traditional Very Human Dependency Being Human Beings Explains Being Human Human Language Unique Beings Uniqueness Creatures Biological Humans

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language. Donald Knuth

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story. Donna Tartt

Book Language Long First Approach Characters Also Friend Diction Different Different Approach Story Different Characters Little Landscape Use Novel

Where story comes from, I don't know. I know that I become obsessed with something. An idea, an image, a person, the way a person talks. And then something starts happening that I can't explain, and it has a lot to do with language. Dorothy Allison

Language Become Starts Way Something Idea Obsessed Know Talks Lot Person Where Happening Story Explain Then Image

'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience. Doug Aitken

Art Culture Architecture Language Become Sense Project Station Out More Nomadic Empowering Audience Materialistic Came Wanted Break Urgency Create Really Less Creators Film

Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay, but it's all good.' It's kind of like going to Paris when you don't know the language; some Americans get into trouble over there, but I'm just like, 'Sorry, I don't speak French.' Dylan McDermott

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All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives. E. F. Benson

Me Learning Intelligence Sunshine Language Sky Possessed Vividly Directly Never Had Failed Days Make Always Been Any Grey Regards Teaching Ever Earlier Received Apply

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language. Eavan Boland

I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent. Edgar Wright

Language Films Silent Like Because Any Essentially Play Watching

Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.' Edith Head

The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well. Edith Pearlman

Natural World Language Prophetic Bleak Well Devoted Often Natural World Careful

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