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"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."

"Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling."

"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?"

"We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.I have no native tongue."

"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."

"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."

"The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words."

"I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue."
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"The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video."


"Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it."


"If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors."


"And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker."
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