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I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk.
Karin Slaughter
You
Conversation
People
Writing
Word
Those
Phrases
Seems
Tend
Over
Like
Know
Talk
Because
How
Dialogue
Choice
Use
Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.
La India
Home
Thought
Singing
Secure
Phrases
About
More
Had
New
Learn
Romantic
Spanish
Much
Working
English
Originally
Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
Maeve Binchy
Life
You
Real Life
Say
Phrases
Someone
Write
Put
Accents
Talking
Always
Real
Any
Fancy
Works
Things
Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
Maggie Rowe
Kindness
Myself
Me
Remember
Sky
Feeling
Practice
Sense
Say
Has-Been
Would
Phrases
Purple
Toward
Powerful
Comfort
Been
Years
Encourage
Anxious
Which
Meant
Internal
Using
Ted Cruz, who uses phrases like 'carpet-bombing' the people of ISIS and who said, after the incidents in Paris, that we need a war president, is using fear mongering and hate speech. As a citizen of the world, I'm very concerned that this kind of behavior is being cheered on by anyone. It only brings more pain and suffering.
Mandy Patinkin
War
Suffering
Hate
People
World
Fear
Behavior
Citizen
Pain
President
Kind
Phrases
More
Only
Paris
Like
Cruz
Concerned
Said
Very
Being
Anyone
After
Who
Incidents
Uses
Using
Brings
Ted
Need
Speech
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.
Margaret Atwood
Me
Words
Important
Think
Phrases
Poem
Poems
More
Poetry
Rational
Because
Sound
Aural
Very
Begin
Than
Movement
Which
Meaning
Appeal
Activity
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.
Marilyn Hacker
You
Together
Words
Syntax
Phrases
Triple
Obliged
Poetry
Writer
Puts
Tension
Between
Particular
Look
How
Line
Verse
Sentence
Sentences
Translate
Working
Whom
You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.
Michael Fassbender
You
Words
Personality
School
Society
Drama
Drama School
Our
Extrovert
Kind
Introvert
Phrases
Ripped
Various
Part
Stuff
Like
Sort
How
How Much
Came
Lot
Off
Traits
Where
Interesting
Realize
Much
Use
Used
Teachers
Now
Actually
I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Hate
People
Word
First
Few
Bad
Phrases
About
Something
Learned
Said
Always
Am
English
Defective
I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.
Mose Allison
Think
Phrases
Songs
Ideas
Always
Storing
Might
Turn
Away
Things
Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
Nancy Duarte
Become
Significance
Phrases
Headlines
Historical
Just
Planned
Moment
Appear
Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
Nancy Kress
Words
Word
Building
Before
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Right Word
Right Words
Paragraph
Exact
Phrase
Phrases
Scene
Individual
Generate
Genes
French
Building Blocks
Blocks
Blossom
Fiction
Sentence
Use
Your
Even
Right
Position
You remember all those phrases about how 'these people' - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese.
Neil Sheehan
Life
Love
Time
You
People
Remember
Value
Spend
Those
Ours
Phrases
About
True
Like
Well
Around
How
Discover
Any
Human
Just
Just As Much
Children
Them
Asians
Much
Vietnamese
Human Life
Certainly
I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.
Nigel Farage
Desperate
Party
Become
Mimicking
Increasingly
Our
Members
Pretend
Tory
Phrases
Policies
Still
Effort
Used
What Bradbury had that most other science-fiction writers didn't have at that time was a love for beautiful language, evocative description, and haunting phrases that would stick with the reader.
Robert J. Sawyer
Love
Beautiful
Time
Language
Other
Evocative
Would
Phrases
Haunting
Writers
Had
Most
Reader
Stick
Description
If we want to take a bunch of phrases and run them through a Google and say 'Hey, who else has said them,' I can come up with the list in five minutes.
Sean Spicer
Google
Else
Hey
Say
Run
Phrases
Minutes
Through
Take
Come
Said
Up
Five
Bunch
List
Want
Them
Who
Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.
Sebastian Thrun
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligence
Discipline
Humanities
Think
Way
Phrases
Attempt
Almost
Nobody
Understand
Artificial
Human
Really
Human Intelligence
Cognition
Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases.
Steven Millhauser
Good
Words
Carelessness
Sign
Plenty
Phrases
No Reason
Repeat
Repetition
Reason
Reasons
I began by working in a study in an attic, but for many years, I've used a small room in a library. What matters to me isn't decor or comfort but only quiet. I need to hear the rhythms of phrases, the music of sentences. Any place that allows me to do that is good enough.
Steven Millhauser
Music
Good
Me
Library
Matters
Enough
Phrases
Only
Small
Study
Attic
Comfort
Hear
Years
Began
Quiet
Any
Place
Rhythms
Room
Sentences
Working
Used
Many
Need
I've been obsessed with words since I was a little girl, and I am fortunate that each week as resident word expert on 'Countdown' I am ideally placed to quiz my guests in dictionary corner about the words and phrases they use.
Susie Dent
Words
Word
Girl
Corner
Guests
Phrases
About
Week
Obsessed
Since
Ideally
Am
Been
Dictionary
Quiz
Expert
Placed
Little
Little Girl
Use
Fortunate
Each
Each Week
Resident
We all know that little words or phrases can mean a lot, yet so few of us know just what to say. Phrases, such as 'chin up,' or 'it could be worse,' usually have the opposite effect; they feel tired and impersonal, even dismissive.
Susie Dent
Tired
Words
Few
Worse
Say
Phrases
Could
Impersonal
Feel
Know
Opposite
Effect
Lot
Up
Just
Chin
Little
Mean
Us
Even
I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
Tao Lin
Funny
Me
People
Think
Would
Would-Be
Phrases
Obituaries
Facial
Neutral
Major
Read
Contribution
Arts
Screaming
Agony
Expression
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Corner
Minds
Phrases
Taken
Merely
Pass
Passages
Test
His
Author
Current
Younger
Newspapers
Root
Really
Found
Number
I think there are phrases that are exciting to a certain group within the Democratic Party but scare the crap out of other people.
Katie Hill
People
Party
Group
Think
Other
I Think
Out
Phrases
Scare
Exciting
Democratic
Democratic Party
Within
Crap
Certain
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