"The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip."

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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate."

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"The one overall structure in my plays is language."

Edward Bond, English Playwright

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"Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks."

Jimmy Breslin, American Entertainer

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"Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"The wonder of words."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."Hazel tried not to laugh. "What did he say?""With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top."Frank looked incredulous. "I thought the horse couldn't fly!"This time Arion whinnied so angrily, even Hazel could guess he was cursing."Dude," Percy told the horse, "I've gotten suspended for saying less than that..."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"But language is wine upon his lips."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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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."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that."

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"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."

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"I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires."

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"For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard."

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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."

"There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate."

"The one overall structure in my plays is language."

"Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks."

"Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word."

"The wonder of words."

"But language is wine upon his lips."

"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."

"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."

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"Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it."

"When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy."

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"Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!"

"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play."

"It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that."

"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."

"I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires."

"Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited."

"For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard."