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Word Quotes
"How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words."
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"We die in proportion to the words we fling around us."
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"I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word."
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"Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins."
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"That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person."
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"I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll."
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"I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl.If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on."
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"Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?"
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"Carve every word before you let it fall."
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"Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically."
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"I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones."
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"Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'."
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"Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!"
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"In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter."
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"The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down."
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"I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper."
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"Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves."
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"Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few."
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"The way I write, words can means lots of different things."
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"Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors."
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"It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word."
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"Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes."
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"For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue."
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"I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go."
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"When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain."
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"I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals."
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"Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult."
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"If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times."
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"No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you."
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