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In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.
Maluma
Life
Beautiful
You
Reality
People
Words
Latin
Latin America
Melodies
Write
Songs
Also
Well
Because
America
Want
Show
I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.
Mandy Patinkin
War
Words
Before
Would
Weapon
Weapons
Lifted
Talking
Go
Die
I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.
Mandy Patinkin
Myself
Words
Sometimes
Think
Musical
Singer
Happens
Notes
Who
Actor
Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
Mandy Patinkin
Music
You
Words
Language
Musical
Shakespeare
Hear
Wonderfully
Connect
Actually
Need
God's words first... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man.
Manny Pacquiao
God
Man
Words
Obey
Law
First
Before
Considering
Laws
I've no problems with cuss words. All of us use them. Those who say they don't are lying. People can tolerate English cuss words but find the Hindi ones a bit revolting.
Manoj Bajpayee
People
Words
Problems
Lying
Say
Bit
Those
Find
No Problems
Hindi
Revolting
Cuss
Them
Us
Use
English
Who
Tolerate
I cannot tell everyone what they must say or what they must not say. Everyone is the owner of their own words.
Manuel Pellegrini
Words
Own
Everyone
Say
Tell
Must
Owner
Cannot
I pray that in the future, no one knows the meaning of women empowerment because we don't need these words.
Manushi Chhillar
Future
Women
Words
No-One
Empowerment
Knows
Because
Pray
Meaning
Meaning Of
Need
These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.
Marc Andreessen
Home
You
Words
Think
Staying
Direction
Having
Headed
Days
Like
Underwear
Blogging
Option
Your
Things
Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters.
Marc Morial
You
Words
First
Own
Out
City
Supporters
Re-Election
Reaching
Well
Because
Opponent
Won
Close
Task
Done
Unify
Your
Reassure
Actions
Basically
There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary.
Marcel Duchamp
Words
Value
Something
Like
Greater
Than
Dictionary
Meaning
Meaning Of
Certain
Explosion
Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.
Marcel Marceau
Truth
Art
You
Lie
Words
Mime
Beyond
Essential
Cannot
Show
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?
Marcel Marceau
Words
Our
Our Lives
Find
Most
Without
Moving
Us
Moments
Lives
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
Marcel Proust
Change
Words
Year
Our
Minds
Drastically
Names
Course
Centuries
Meanings
Two
I'm a very direct person just generally. I don't use a lot of words unnecessarily. I try to get to the heart of the issue, address it and go on to the next thing.
Marcia Fudge
Heart
Words
Try
Address
Unnecessarily
Direct
Generally
Issue
Go
Lot
Very
Person
Get
Just
Next
Use
Next Thing
Thing
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
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
Research shows that when we read words on paper, it reduces our stress levels by nearly 70 percent. We also read more carefully than on tablets or laptops.
Margaret Heffernan
Words
Stress
Research
Carefully
Our
Paper
Tablets
Percent
More
Also
Read
Than
Laptops
Shows
Nearly
Levels
Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.
Margaret Heffernan
You
People
Words
Think
Diminish
Ability
Clearly
How
Misuse
Truthfully
Your
My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.
Margaret Walker
Memories
Words
Strong
Say
Onions
Clay
Clean
Veins
Over
Smelling
Were
Quick
Wet
Hands
Rolling
Soap
Grandmothers
Full
Many
Roughly
Like dancers with choreography or actors with scripts, jazz singers could take material that was known, even loved, then risk interpreting and revising it. They could conceal even as they revealed themselves. Inflection, timing and tonality were their language, at least as much as words.
Margo Jefferson
Words
Language
Timing
Jazz
Dancers
Risk
Could
Take
Conceal
Like
Singers
Known
Revealed
Material
Least
Were
Revising
Loved
Scripts
Themselves
Then
Much
Even
Choreography
Actor
Tonality
Interpreting
It is the children between five and seven who are the word-lovers. It is they who show a predisposition toward such study. Their undeveloped minds can not yet grasp a complete idea with distinctness. They do, however, understand words. And they may be entirely carried away by their ecstatic, their tireless interest in the parts of speech.
Maria Montessori
Words
Complete
Seven
Minds
Carried
Entirely
Study
Idea
Toward
Between
Ecstatic
Parts
Understand
However
Five
May
Children
Tireless
Interest
Show
Who
Grasp
Away
Speech
Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the words on the page, I can go about ripping them up and moving scenes around. A blank page, though? Terrifying. I'm always angsty when I'm working my way through a first draft.
Marie Lu
Me
Writing
Words
Will
First
Difficult
Incredibly
Once
Way
Though
See
Ripping
About
Scenes
Through
Blank
Blank Page
New
Because
Terrifying
Around
Always
Go
Up
New Story
Story
Happily
Moving
Them
Working
Page
Draft
After a dark, violent age, the Piscean, we are entering a millennium of love and light in the words of the popular song the 'Age of Aquarius,' the time of the mind's true liberation.
Marilyn Ferguson
Love
Time
Age
Song
Words
Dark
Light
Mind
Liberation
Entering
True
After
Popular
Millennium
Violent
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
Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.
Marilynne Robinson
Life
Teacher
Myself
Women
Words
School
Three
My Life
Think
Too
Over
Said
Been
Quiet
Graduate
Graduate School
Whole
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