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Word Quotes
"The way I write, words can means lots of different things."
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"I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed."
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"Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages."
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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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"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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"Be aware that the more often a child hears the word no, the greater his need to say no himself."
Word,
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"In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand."
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"If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched."
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"Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!"
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"Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air."
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"We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them."
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"Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight."
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"I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening."
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"A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing."
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"All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing."
Word,
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"And it should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions."
Word,
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"Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive."
Word,
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"If Britney would paint her ass green, I'm sure you could spot green asses all over LA as soon as the word was out."
Word,
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"I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless."
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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"If I told you the words, you wouldn't believe them anyway."
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"I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words."
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"When I was writing, I genuinely believed each word was my own."
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"Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few."
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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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"Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly."
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"I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster."
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