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"English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite."
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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."
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"January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out."
"I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point."
"I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop."
"There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful."
"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."
"A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything."
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