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I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to write something, I start reading what I think of as good literature. I read things with wonderful language. Patricia MacLachlan
Good Writing Wonderful Language Reading Beginning Think Tell About Something Through Write Read Always Go Literature Cycles Things Start
I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English. Patricia Riggen
Language First Though Write Writer Because Handicap Just Anymore English Even Harder
Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much. Patricia Riggen
World Matter Language Rest Own More Likely American Much Film Watch
One of the first major programming projects that I worked on when I was growing up in Ireland, back just coding by myself, was a programming language. Then I spent a bunch of time working on a new web framer. Just back-end things to make it easier to go in and build things on top of, do other development. Patrick Collison
Time Myself Language First Build Programming Other Programming Language Back Top Projects Spent Easier Web Development New Major Make Go Up Ireland Bunch Just Then Worked Working Growing Growing Up Coding Things
After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort. Patrick Rothfuss
Gorgeous Language College Seem Shakespeare Poets Could Chaucer Come Most Renaissance Couple Couple Years Make Read How Been Years Effort Frost After Fantasy English English Language Novels Harlem Appreciate
I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language. Patti Stanger
Beautiful Mom Most Beautiful Word Language Adopt Most Beautiful Word Child Want Really English English Language
The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology. Paul Davies
Language Chemistry Biology About Simply Mesh Concepts React Does Narratives How Substances Whereas Information Informational Organisation Appeals
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. Paul Engle
Together Emotions Words Language Tough Power Skin Delicate Poetry Ideas Ordinary Held Raised
Music is that universal language which unifies the spirits of mankind. Paul Horn
Music Language Spirits Which Mankind Universal Universal Language
Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner. Paul Ricoeur
Language Recognize Carries Easy Employed Conditions Ordinary Which Meaning Meaningful Manner Expression
I think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government, so I guess I would put the onus on them to answer why they did all these purges of God. Paul Ryan
God Government You Vision Language Think Guess Our Obama Administration Obama Administration Would Purged Rather Mention Put Documents Sure Answer Lot Did Them Ask Platform Why Keeping Founding Peculiar
Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on. Paul Ryan
Language Remove Party Few Our Obama Administration Obama Administration About Wedge Drives Emphatic Parties Democratic Democratic Party Israel Issues Were Being Capital Agreed Platform Platforms Jerusalem Two
The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics. Paul Watson
Language Economics Only Industry Understands Whaling Japanese
Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct. Paula Malcomson
People Language Direct Polite Listen Belfast
For me, actors have to have a character, an aura, body language. They're not models. They used to call actors models. But I want them to participate in the film. Pawel Pawlikowski
Character Me Language Participate Call Aura Models Want Them Body Body Language Used Film Actor
I love the Italian culture - it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes... I just love it! Sometimes I think I'm an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman's body. Penelope Cruz
Love Beautiful Music Woman Culture People Sometimes Language Trapped Think Attitudes Italian Just Spanish Body
Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly. Penelope Keith
Ugly Language Everyone Says Instead Like Sounds Sitting Just Which Sat Now Things
We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood. Penelope Keith
Me You Wonderful School Language Everyone Could Had Sound Understood Old-Fashioned Lessons Posh Appreciate
If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to open for a Norwegian writer. Per Petterson
You World Language Visible Writer Open Very Norwegian Door Hard English English Language
When you are a sentence-based writer, they have to be good. They have to be really on the spot. Because when you don't have a plot, really, what shall you rely on? Just language. And sometimes I am so afraid of writing the wrong thing, I just sit and wait for the right thing to come. Per Petterson
Good You Writing Sometimes Wait Language Wrong Thing Sit Right Thing Plot Rely Shall Writer Wrong Come Because Spot Am Just Afraid The Right Thing Really Right Thing
Ezra Pound was a crackpot on social and political issues, but he knew what he was talking about in matters of the written language. Pete Hamill
Political Language Matters About Pound He Written Knew Talking Issues Political Issues Social
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas. Peter Ackroyd
Work Nature Language Demanding String Unnatural Composer Only Write Piano Writer He Divisions He Or She Also She Force Within Equivalent Historian Histories Expect Against Produce Should English English Language Novelist Novels Why
Writers let themselves be enticed by the language. Peter Bichsel
Language Writers Themselves
Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do speech or vocal work to get rid of the German accent; I was just lucky. Peter Hermann
Work Language Easily Able Vocal Fairly Accent Learn German Get Just Patterns Rid English Lucky Speech
As I am actually partly Cornish, I am frequently tempted to start some sort of Cornish liberation front in the Home Counties, where our language rights are badly neglected. Peter Hitchens
Home Rights Language Our Neglected Liberation Some Tempted Badly Counties Partly Sort Frequently Am Front Where Actually Start
I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed. Peter Mayhew
Character Speak Language Think Main Had He Main Thing Regular Thing
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