Language Quotes - Page 35

• Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.

  Glenn Close

  Bunnies, Proud, Boiler

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• Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word.

  John Oliver

  Congratulations, May, Offensive

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• Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,'

  John Oliver

  Two, Boredom, Promise

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• Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

  Sophie Marceau

  Thinking, Acting, Ifs

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• Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language

  Sophie Marceau

  Sometimes, Difficult, Wells

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• It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it

  Max von Sydow

  Important, Now And Then, Masters

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• I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor

  Max von Sydow

  Mother, Thinking, Musical

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• Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

  Camryn Manheim

  College, Parent, Degrees

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• I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

  Camryn Manheim

  Growing Up, School, College

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• If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

  Sid Caesar

  Song, Minutes, Rhythm

  "The words and comedy of Sid Caesar" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2014.

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• Every language has its own music.

  Sid Caesar

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• I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.

  Odette Annable

  Home, Speak English, Half

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Clothes, Revolution, Social

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• That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

  Chow Yun-Fat

  Mother, Lines, Way

  "Working in Front of the Camera Keeps Me Alive'". Interview with Stephen Short, content.time.com. December 27, 1999.

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• Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages.

  Paul Rudd

  Congratulations, Stupid, Mean

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• Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke in a secret language, bore a covert imagery. When we read these images in needlework, in paintings, in quilts, rugs and scrapbooks, we sometimes find a cry for help, sometimes an allusion to a secret political alignment, sometimes a moving symbol about the relationships between men and women.

  Miriam Schapiro

  Quilts, Women, Moving

  Miriam Schapiro (1985). “Miriam Schapiro: Femmages, 1971-1985 : Brentwood Gallery, 1221 South Brentwood Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63117 : May 17-June 30, 1985”

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• English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it

  Werner Herzog

  Wonderful, Urges

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• Also, I think having a musicality about me, that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.

  Toni Collette

  Thinking, Different, Helping

  "Toni Collette: Keeping Track Of Multiple Personalities". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. April 1, 2010.

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• There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.

  Connie Sellecca

  Kids, Play, Language Barriers

  "John Tesh and Family Comfort Sri Lankan Victims". "The 700 Club" with Gordon Robertson, www.cbn.com. January 14, 2005.

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• I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Home, My Family, Stage

  "Andrew Dice Clay is back with 'no apologies'" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. December 29, 2012.

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• Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.

  Grant Morrison

  Thinking, Symbolism, Speak

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• I AM happy”. They understood what we english people have long forgot. We're not our sadness. We're not our happiness or our pain but our language hypnotizes us and traps us in little labelled boxes ()

  Grant Morrison

  Pain, Sadness, Long

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• I'm talking to a journalist and I really have nothing to say anymore, this is already uncomfortable. I feel the pain coming already. The brutal pain, when one day I should read your edit of whatever I say, because no matter what I say, no matter how I say it, no matter its tone, its frequency range, its decibel level or the way in which I put the words together, no matter my intentions and no matter the truth. What I'll read one day will be a chastised, manipulated abortion of your misunderstandings, your manipulations, your agenda and your amateur use of the English language.

  Vincent Gallo

  Pain, Talking, Abortion

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• Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

  Lucy Liu

  Character, Costumes

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• People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat

  Lucy Liu

  Emotional, People, Location

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