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

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"Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other."

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"I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy."

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

"English is not merely a language anymore, it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world."

"Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's."

"Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun us always the same."

"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

"Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other."

"Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other."

"We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word."

"I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy."

"I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth and that things are the sons of heaven."

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"They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese."

"I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines."

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"But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry."

"The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed."

"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."

"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."

"There's always some kind of hidden logic."

"We all look for lost time."