#language

I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to a lot of realism both in the language and in the structure of a book. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

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I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do. ↗

— Mari Evans

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Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

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There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

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For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

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True creativity often starts where language ends. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

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I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

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Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside? ↗

— Jackson Browne

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