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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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"The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love."
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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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"He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out."
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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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"The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service."
Service
"My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity."
Mother
"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."
Writer
"All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists."
Theatre
"I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra."
Acting
"After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes."
Comedy
"I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface."
People
"One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there."
Music
"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."
Money
"The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?"
Art
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