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"Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that."
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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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"I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind."
Wind
"When I hear that somebody's difficult, I think, Oh, I can't wait to work with them."
Work
"It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won't get made at all."
Control
"I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star."
Business
"I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out."
Talent
"With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools."
Woman
"I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here."
Life
"I'm an actor, that's my contribution."
Actor
"When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood."
Audience
"We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves."
Actor
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