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"Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that."
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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
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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."
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"The wonder of words."
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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..."
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"But language is wine upon his lips."
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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."
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"NE'TWORK: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.......RETI'CULATED: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities."
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"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."
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"Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k...a C-y-k..." She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic, too. We could've been there all night while she tried to spell Cyclops. "You know what I mean!"
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"In its proper role, a number counts the missing words."
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"I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind."
Wind
"Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor."
Death
"You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does."
Love
"When I hear that somebody's difficult, I think, Oh, I can't wait to work with them."
Work
"I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work."
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"As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line."
Actor
"I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star."
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"Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man."
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"We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves."
Actor
"Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do."
Soul
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