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"I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film."
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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
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"Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school."
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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
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"It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters."
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"No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another."
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"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."
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"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."
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"Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence."
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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
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"Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut."
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"You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you."
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"If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated."
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"I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that."
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"I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years."
Hollywood
"There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh."
Love
"Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them."
Power
"In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot."
Television
"We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information."
Nature
"High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it."
Music
"Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult."
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