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"What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?"

"Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is."

"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

"Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language."

"In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language."

"It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."

"Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour."

"Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear."

"The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language."
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"To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task."

"One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors."
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