#we

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#creates #interests #kind #language #me

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#fairies #gifts #good #good and bad #i

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

#how #line #look #obliged #particular

This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S. ↗

— Mario Monti

#between #blocked #case #certainly #companies

I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#believe #great #great attitude #i #predict

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#devil #incredible #look #performance #walter

Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#before #crowe #difficult #i #i can

We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#paid #responsibilities #very #well

Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#exclusively #i #life #my life #ray

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser. ↗

— Ian Hacking

#better #bomb #could #intent #just