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I never really thought I had an extensive vocabulary like that, and I'm not an avid reader. I didn't read a lot growing up - at all. Gza

Thought Vocabulary Never Had Like Read Reader Lot Up Really Avid Growing Growing Up Extensive

I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes forget that even though the words I'm using are fairly ordinary words, the concepts around which they cluster, which are the long concepts of literary tradition, may not be familiar to an audience. Helen Vendler

You Words Sometimes Long Think Though Vocabulary Particular Concepts Fairly Read Around Audience Tradition Discourse Lot Familiar Forget May Literary Ordinary Which Cluster Hard Using Even Things Flow

Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study. Henry Petroski

When I choose child actors, I chose them for their personalities. And then I work with their own vocabulary, so I'm not imposing text or dialogue on them: I'm just receiving. Hirokazu Kore-eda

Work Own Vocabulary Dialogue Imposing Text Child Child Actors Just Personalities Them Then Choose Chose Actor Receiving

Making America great again, as if to keep the world out. The world and all its fresh ideas and everything that's new and exhilarating and the wind of change that should blow through the world - block it out, wall ourselves up. That for me goes with a small vocabulary. A narrow, confining vocabulary. Howard Jacobson

Great Me Change World Wind Everything Ourselves Out Vocabulary Small Through New Ideas Fresh Making Narrow Fresh Ideas Block Exhilarating Up Wall America Blow Goes Confining Again Should Keep

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future. J. G. Ballard

Future Alone Believe Other Possible Would Find All Writers Vocabulary Something Writers Ideas Deal Inevitably Were Existing Very Close Scrap Fiction Form Literature Themselves Producing Whole Present Images

Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images. James Merrill

Hope Young Sense Universe Too Possible Some Vocabulary Could Schematic Scheme Most Fit Arthur Fascinating Images

With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music, it is not the same at all. That's why it seemed so important to me, from the beginning of my career, to invent a grammar, a visual vocabulary adapted to electronic music. Jean-Michel Jarre

I panicked when my son, Jett, stopped eating baby food. He's only two, but his food vocabulary is fantastic. He likes my baked tilapia and string beans with chopped garlic. But he really likes pizza. Sometimes every inanimate object to him is pizza. Jill Scott

Food Son Sometimes Every Baby Panicked String Object Eating Vocabulary Only Beans He Baked Likes Him His Stopped Pizza Fantastic Inanimate Really Chopped Garlic Two

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday. John McWhorter

Communication Language Everyday Vocabulary Beyond Command Loving Means Your Level

The games I'm playing have much more to do with using the language of power and the vocabulary of power to construct new sentences. It's about pointing to empire and control and domination and misogyny and all those social ills in the work, but it's not necessarily taking a position. Oftentimes, it's actually embodying it. Kehinde Wiley

Work Language Power Control Those About Vocabulary More Construct Pointing Taking Empire New Domination Oftentimes Social Sentences Much Games Using Ills Actually Necessarily Playing Position

When I'd written my 'Silverwing' series - I'd imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary. Kenneth Oppel

Awareness Bats Vocabulary Written Human Full Series

Growing up with a dad who was a classic-rock guy, I felt out of place with what was happening in pop culture. The Beatles, Zeppelin, T. Rex - that, for me, was the music that could never leave our vocabulary. King Princess

I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community. Larry Kramer

Gay Marriage Words Community Think Gay Community Gay Marriage Has-Been Vocabulary Been Rabid Note Use Your Population Expression

For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even in my vocabulary. Laurieann Gibson

Me Entertainment Dancer Backup Vocabulary Part Artist Even

When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing. Lea Salonga

Speak Language Somebody Way Out One-On-One Vocabulary Instantly Feel Performing Also Around Understand Always Doing Lot Person Get Different Really Figure Fun Using Different Way Challenging

I preferred the simplest vocabulary. Louise Gluck

Vocabulary Simplest Preferred

I feel a vocabulary in my music that is coming from popular music. Popular music is like the mother of all languages. Ludovico Einaudi

Music Mother Vocabulary Feel Like Coming Languages Popular Popular Music

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin. Lytton Strachey

Word Few Every Latin Vocabulary Exceptions French Very Straight

I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact. Madhur Bhandarkar

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. Marina Warner

Pain Pleasure Vocabulary Depends Imagery

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