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"When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well."
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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
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"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."
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"'Mean to' don't pick no cotton."
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"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."
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"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."
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"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"
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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
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"Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing."
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"We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters."
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"Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing."
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"My father's sister never married in order to raise me."
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"I was very nervous at the beginning of Hotel du Nord."
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"If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings."
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"When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well."
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"I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy."
Family

"It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you."
People

"For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands."
Travel

"A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace."
People

"Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened."
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"But I still always felt the absence of a mother."
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