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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain
Word
Right Word
Rightly
Effective
May
Pause
Ever
Right
When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.
Richard Simmons
Teacher
God
Good
Day
Me
Good Teacher
Strong
Word
Right Word
Give
Give Me
Make
Him
Another
Another Day
Bed
Spreading
Go
Ask
Keep
Right
Night
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
Mark Twain
Matter
Word
Right Word
Almost
Between
Lightning
Difference
Tis
Really
Large
Right
At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Words
Word
Enormous
Changed
Way
Right Word
Could
Write
He
Idea
Pictures
Make
Him
Read
Learned
Difference
Order
Literature
Conveying
Choosing
Paint
European
Professor
Illustrated
Right
Image
University
The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.
John Boyle O'Reilly
Word
Right Word
Rarity
Spoken
Precious
Right
I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence.
Miriam Margolyes
Space
Word
Giving
Enjoy
Right Word
Finding
Sentence
Full
Measure
Each
Right
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Healing
Word
Nothing
Right Word
Born
Writer
He
Come
Realization
Your
Right
I never really thought about myself being in really big movies at all. In fact, I always though I'd do, I don't know, smaller movies is not quite the right word, but more character-oriented, dramatic things. I took myself a little bit seriously.
Chris Pine
Myself
Word
Seriously
Thought
Big
Took
Dramatic
Bit
Right Word
Though
About
More
Fact
Never
Smaller
Know
Always
Quite
Being
In Fact
Little
Movies
Little Bit
Really
Right
Things
Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.
Christopher Walken
People
Speak
Word
Parents
Think
Everybody
Hesitate
Right Word
Both
Both My Parents
Had
Knew
Accents
Off
Did
Where
Heavy
Rhythm
English
Who
Right
Thing
I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy.
Eva Braun
Age
Happy
Word
Right Word
Particular
Reached
Am
Quite
Certainly
Moment
Now
Right
Friends sometimes ask me, 'When you get the ball what are you thinking?' But you do not have time to think. You have to do it. It's not instinct; that's not the right word, but it's how you feel in this moment. You sense it. It's trained, but it's trained inside you. It makes you faster in the moment.
Ivan Rakitic
Time
Me
You
Sometimes
Word
Sense
Think
Faster
Thinking
Right Word
Inside
Feel
Instinct
Makes
Ball
How
Friends
Trained
Get
Ask
Moment
Right
I'm no apologist for Russia or the Assad regime, but actually, this has been staring us in the face for a number of years now, and I think it's time to turn a page and accept reality. Our strategy - if that is the right word - failed miserably, and Russia's with Iran has been successful.
Jeremy Hunt
Time
Reality
Word
Face
Strategy
Think
Our
Right Word
Has-Been
Russia
Failed
Accept
Been
Years
Iran
Regime
Turn
Us
Successful
Page
Now
Staring
Actually
Right
Number
I like to weed out the people who aren't going to enjoy me straight off the bat. If you look at all my specials, I do start more extreme and then, as I get into it, sort of at the three-quarter mark, I normally have a bit of pathos. Is pathos the right word?
Jim Jefferies
Me
You
People
Word
Weed
Enjoy
Mark
Bat
Extreme
Bit
Right Word
Out
More
Like
Look
Sort
Off
Normally
Get
Going
Pathos
Straight
Then
Who
Right
Start
I can speak Cantonese, but I can't speak about fashion - I learnt all my fashion in Europe, so often, during interviews in Chinese I just don't know the right word - it can be very hard to explain things.
John Rocha
Fashion
Speak
Word
Interviews
Right Word
About
Know
Learnt
Very
Often
Just
Explain
Chinese
Hard
Europe
Right
Things
I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe.
Margaret Haddix
Love
Words
Word
Whatever
Right Word
Exact
Picked
Feel
Like
Around
Trying
Describe
Right
Playing
I think Dutch people are very sober. I don't know if it's the right word. Like, you have the most famous person walk by some Dutch people, and they're like, 'Oh, hello.' And they maybe take a photo, but most of the time, they'll respect you and leave you alone. And if you go to some other countries they will literally mob you, go crazy.
Martin Garrix
Alone
Time
Crazy
You
Respect
People
Walk
Word
Will
Think
Other
Other Countries
Right Word
Photo
Some
Take
Countries
Like
Know
Most
Leave
Go
Mob
Very
Person
Dutch
Maybe
Oh
Famous
Famous Person
Literally
Sober
Hello
Right
I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don't know if perfect is the right word because I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.
Mila Kunis
You
You Can Do It
Word
Believe
Every
Think
Right Word
Perfect
Take
Part
Perfection
Feel
Feels
Like
Know
Obviously
Because
Exists
Role
Right
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
I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.
Neil Gaiman
Word
Somebody
Own
Right Word
See
My Own
Highest
Stuff
Know
Look
Does
Proud
Am
Get
Regard
Flaws
Who
Whole
Right
It's rude to not try and look up-to-date. Is rude the right word? Yes! It's rude - rude to other people.
Nicholas Haslam
People
Try
Word
Rude
Other
Right Word
Look
Yes
Up-To-Date
Right
Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.
Robert Littell
Work
Work Hard
Word
Right Word
Details
Get
Pages
Your
Hard
Fill
Right
They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.
Russel Honore
Food
Survival
Word
Right Word
Alive
Stay
Call
Looting
Get
Stores
Right
There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.
Samantha Harvey
You
Yourself
Word
Job
Right Word
Ways
Those
Easier
Some
About
Give
Constraints
More
Boundaries
Know
Because
Within
Makes
Go
Maybe
Just
Formal
Story
Much
Your
Fun
Many
Play
Right
I think I'm very consistent, that's the right word.
Lukasz Fabianski
Word
Think
I Think
Right Word
Consistent
Very
Right
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