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In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist. J. R. R. Tolkien

Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate. J. R. R. Tolkien

Language Fall Field Think Corner Detailed Seem Rate Uncharted Exciting Almost Attention Soon Ideas Pieces Because Up Begin Personal Goes Any Middle As Far As Little Far Turns Notions English Received

Music goes further than any border, any language. J Balvin

Music Language Further Border Than Goes Any

He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits. Jack Kroll

I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue. Jack Ma

Language Think Dialogue Common Common Language Chinese Businesses Need

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read. Jack Prelutsky

Language Only Poetry Look Read Because English

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside? Jackson Browne

Language Say Would Would-Be Parked Outside Like Least Heard Banjo Often Sentence English English Language Porsche Player

Language usage always has a political context. Jackson Katz

Political Language Always Context Usage

When I entered Bollywood, I didn't have any advantage over anyone. I didn't know how to act, I was not from the industry, I didn't know the language, and I didn't know how to dance. So, whatever films I was getting, I was just taking them up. Jacqueline Fernandez

Language Dance Whatever Films Entered Taking Advantage Over Know Industry How Up Any Getting Just Anyone Them Act Bollywood

If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized. Jacques Chirac

Generation Language Will Country Young Programs Our Strongly Economically New New Media Creations Media Present Marginalized

When we say Tamil, we are not talking of a language but an entire civilisation. Jaggi Vasudev

Language Not Talking Say Entire Civilisation Talking

Going to the U.A.E. for the first time was a real cultural shock. Everything was different. People didn't speak my language, it was all new, a huge change. But I loved it. Jain

Time Change People Speak Language First Everything New First Time Real Cultural Huge Shock Going Different Loved Different People

You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language. Jake Shimabukuro

Music You Language Think Know Very Interactive

The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That is one of the things that will happen to all distortions: They become normal and turn into something else. Jamaica Kincaid

Life Language Will My Life Become Nothing Else Distortion Out One Of The Things Something Something Else Remains Normal Same Just Happen Turn English English Language Now Things Started

I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are not in a position to do that, but I do it. I don't change any cue and I never change anybody else's lines, but I make my own words fit my mouth. James Cromwell

Character Change Words Language Own Mouth Else Everything Out Inside Inside-Out My Own Never Know Make Because Always Cue Lines Fit Any Often Anybody Actor Position

Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between the traditions of Anglo-Saxon poetry and those established in English poetry by the time of, say, Shakespeare. And anyway, Anglo-Saxon is a different language, which has to be learned. James Fenton

Time People Language Some People Think Say Those Some Anglo-Saxon Shakespeare Poetry Between Learned Accept Because Continuity Traditions Begins Any Established Different Anyway Which Different Language English By The Time

We wanted the language to feel fresh, fun, and rock solid. James Frank

Language Solid Feel Fresh Rock Wanted Fun

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. James Martineau

Music Religion Prayer Language Possible Atmosphere More Poetry Without Than

The starting point of all great jazz has got to be format, a language that you can work within that, in some ways, is much tighter than the blues or even gospel. It's all working towards the same destination - the difference being that Miles Davis flew there, and I'm still taking the subway. James McBride

Work Great You Destination Language Jazz Ways Some Point Davis Taking Towards Gospel Within Tighter Got Still Than Same Difference Being Blues Format Subway Much Working Flew Miles Miles Davis Even Starting Starting Point

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. James Thurber

Grace Language Value Interviews Lies Give Give And Take Fact Take Answers Opposition Perpetuate Oral Little Decline English English Language Helps Expression

I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come a long way.' In terms of a filmmaker, I feel like my filmmaking language has really matured. James Wan

Death Language Long Own Way Worst Critic Wow My Own Long Way Feel Come Like Look Terms Am Go Matured Oh Sentence Really Now Filmmaker Filmmaking

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