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If you actually saw your favorite movie star who is also a great classical actor doing 'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Macbeth' or 'Taming of the Shrew,' it would be a great thing and a great thing for kids to get interested in language. Thomas Gibson
Great You Language Saw Macbeth Kids Favorite Favorite Movie Would Would-Be Classical Great Thing Also Doing Juliet Get Movie Romeo Movie Star Romeo And Juliet Interested Your Who Star Actor Actually Thing
If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done. Thomas Lynch
Me Word Language Important Sense Market Intimate Entirely Poems More Write Part Voluntary Suppose Most Were Sublime Gets Done Them Ignored Satisfying Assigned
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations. Thomas Lynch
Me Language Sense Out Poetry Remains Shaping Suppose Make Effort Situations Essentially Senseless
I think when I first started out, I had a kind of an exuberance about language, comedy, narrative leaps that... stopped just short of non sequiturs. And I'm much more cautious now. Thomas McGuane
Comedy Language First Think Exuberance Out Kind About More Had Leaps Narrative Cautious Short Just Stopped Much Now Started
No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images. Tibor Kalman
You Speak Matter Language Everyone Sophistication Understand Cultural Your Images
I'd like to pursue music back home because I still tend to express myself better through my mother language - English - and it's something I've been dreaming about and would like to achieve. Tiffany Hwang
Music Myself Home Better Mother Achieve Language Back Would Dreaming About Something Tend Pursue Through Like Because Still Been English Express
I like to write in fairly everyday language - I've always tried to write lyrics that, if people would speak the words, it wouldn't sound like a song. Tim Rice
People Song Words Speak Language Everyday Lyrics Would Tried Write Like Fairly Always Sound
I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they do not consider you bilingual. They may call you bi-ignorant because you can't speak any language. Tim Scott
You Speak World Language Consider Fail Failed Call Because Geography Any May Spanish Bilingual English
Epic started out with scripting languages in the first generation of the Unreal engine in 1998. I wrote that. There's a place in my heart that comes along with the simplicity of programming in a scripting language. Tim Sweeney
Heart Generation Simplicity Language First Programming Out Unreal Along First Generation Wrote Place Scripting Epic Engine Languages Started
Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language. Timothy West
Language Bad Were Offensive Certain Certain Things Deemed Things
Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns. Tina Weymouth
Life Music Language Dance Something Part Make Without Difference Being Your
To somehow shrink so that you might be more comfortable is a foreign language to me. It's a trait that I've never had. And that I hope I never, ever have. Tituss Burgess
Hope Me You Language Somehow More Never Had Comfortable Foreign Foreign Language Trait Might Shrink Ever
At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty. Tobias Hill
Music Honesty Light School Language Important Sense Difficulty Way Complex Claim Kind Some Something Given Poetry Never Makes Very Controlled Rhythms Using Flowery
Most patients enter a doctor's office or hospital as if it were a Mayan temple, representing an ancient and mysterious culture with no language in common with the visitor. Tom Brokaw
Culture Doctor Language Enter Ancient Visitor Temple Mysterious Hospital Most Were Office Common Representing Patients
'Ulysses' is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies near the foundations of the Irish Free State and of the Irish republic. Tom Paulin
Challenges Racism Language Free Beginning State Lies Free State Greatest Ulysses Text Irish Vicious Which Republic English English Language Foundations Near Right
I've spoken with a few employers who have moved away from what has to be some of the least attractive language you could use about health risk to start talking about wellbeing. Tom Rath
Health You Language Few Some About Risk Could Spoken Employers Attractive Talking Least Wellbeing Moved Use Who Away Start
Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language. Tom Robbins
World Water Language Made Atoms Our Air Earth Our World Molecules Even
We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. Tom Robbins
Truth Language Ourselves Bad Between Forms Much Use Barrier
Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really study photography and cinematography, and the language of visual storytelling. Tom Verica
Dreams Photography Language Before Films Cinematography Visual Visual Storytelling Pursue Study Like Couple Courses American Getting Short Short Films Storytelling Avenues Really Right Started Night
Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things. Tom Wlaschiha
Me You School Mother Language Demanding Some Only Emotional Missing Another Because Mother Tongue Foreign Foreign Languages Quite The Only Thing Interested Depth Certain Your Certain Things Languages Connotations Thing Things Tongue Playing
The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language. Tomas Transtromer
Language Must Step New Get Therefore Marches
What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold. Tommy Lee Jones
Future Good Me Matter Language Thought Situation Ways Dress Habits Points Came Any May Hold Them Grandparents View Use Uses Appeals Believing Things
Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist. Tommy Lee Jones
Language Living Perfect He Prose Greatest Stylist American McCarthy View
I've been a loner all my life, so it didn't bother me that Hungarian was my first language and that I had to learn English. I had a pretty heavy accent in junior high school and would say things like 'wolume control' instead of 'volume control.' Tommy Ramone
Life Me School Language My Life First Control Say Hungarian All My Life High Would Pretty High School Loner Bother Had Volume Instead Like Accent Learn Been Junior Junior High Junior High School Heavy English Things
I used to take formal notes in lines of blue, and underline the key words in red, and I realised I needed only the key words and the idea. Then to bring in connections, I drew arrows and put in images and codes. It was a picture outside my head of what was inside my head - 'mind map' is the language my brain spoke. Tony Buzan
Words Key Language Mind Picture Inside Drew Only Take Outside Put Head Spoke Idea Red Arrows Lines Brain Blue Formal Realised Notes Then Used Connections Map Codes Bring Images Needed
One of the important things about familiar form and metricality is that it draws attention to the physical nature of language: the spell-binding nature of it and the ceremony of articulation. Tony Harrison
Nature Language Important Important Things Draws Physical About Attention Familiar Articulation Form Ceremony Things
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