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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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"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."
"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
"Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts."
"Great is language . . . . it is the mightiest of the sciences,It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth . . . . and of men and women . . . . and of all qualities and processes;It is greater than wealth . . . . it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music."
"Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."
"I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me."
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"What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give."
"When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy."
"Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult."
"People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried."
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