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• America has never had a very wide vocabulary for miscegenation. We say we like diversity, but we don't like the idea that our Hispanic neighbor is going to marry our daughter. America has nothing like the Spanish vocabulary for miscegenation. Mulatto, mestizo, Creole - these Spanish and French terms suggest, by their use, that miscegenation is a fact of life. America has only black and white. In eighteenth-century America, if you had any drop of African blood in you, you were black.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Daughter, Black And White, Blood

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I don't know how else to tell the story except to utilise that vocabulary: the rain, the darkness, the mansions, the framing, etc, the lighting and that sort of thing.

  Martin Scorsese

  Rain, Darkness, Stories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and emerge with the power to turn language into a lathe for re-shaping, re-knowing your own tongue, heart, and life.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Art, Knowing, Feelings

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• People that are much younger in areas that are much more, kind of, disenfranchised, I guess, as far as the gay movement goes, they still have a language that they've discovered around things. And they have a vocabulary to use, and they have a way to express themselves even when they're not accepted.

  Amy Ray

  Gay, People, Use

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• I talk about it a lot to my students. Musicality never came up in any of own writing education, and I can see why - we don't have the vocabulary for it. Phrasing is intuitive, and its difficult to articulate when it's on and when it's not.

  Paul Lisicky

  Writing, Students, Difficult

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I just think that the question of women in rock or women playing guitar, I just think it's such a non-issue, and I think that probably the sooner critics and press outlets can just erase the 'what's it like being a women in rock?' question from their vocabulary, the better off everyone will be.

  Annie E. Clark

  Thinking, Rocks, Guitar

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• There were definitely scenes I struggled with more than others: the car accident and the thunderstorm are two that come to mind. It's difficult to write about a thunderstorm. There are only so many ways to describe it and our vocabulary is so limited. And the car accident scene required a tense, manic quality that had to be conveyed in the language, as well as the character's dialogue and actions. I was editing these scenes long after I thought I was finished with them.

  Mary J. Miller

  Character, Writing, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually.

  Alicia Keys

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We haven't developed a progressive vocabulary. We say something is "public," but we just mean it's viewable online. Or we say it's "open," but we just mean it's accessible. I would like for us to think about terms critically and maybe change our vocabulary a bit. What if pubic actually meant publicly-funded, or social meant socialized.

  Astra Taylor

  Mean, Thinking, What If

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Even though I had a great deal of respect for children's TV and theatre, it wasn't my intent to specialize solely in that area. I did indeed want to work on shows like "Sesame Street" and I am honored to be even a small part of that legacy, but I also wanted to do characters that had wider vocabulary and satirical humor.

  Stephanie D'Abruzzo

  Children, Character, Theatre

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

  Rodger Kamenetz

  Thinking, Intellectual, Important

  Source: content.time.com

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• I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.

  David Longstreth

  Simple, Esoteric, Common

  "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.

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• If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a book for children. Children still haven't closed themselves off with fear of the unknown, fear of revolution, or the scramble for security. They are still familiar with the inborn vocabulary of myth

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Book, Writing

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.123, Open Road Media

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• Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary.

  Beck

  Sound, Doe, Unfamiliar

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• Humor is not far from my vocabulary.

  Edward Herrmann

  "Edward Herrmann talks to Tribute about his new DVD Treasure Buddies". Interview with Alexandra Heilbron, www.tribute.ca. January 23, 2012.

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• I see someone play, or I listen to a record, and I think, "How did they make that sound?' It's not emulation; it's more building a vocabulary that can be called up at a moment's notice.

  Keith Fullerton Whitman

  Thinking, Play, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

  Jimenez Lai

  Art, Acceptance, Literature

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Challenges, Thank God, Rich

  "The Superconductor: SF Symphony’s Michael Tilson Thomas (Condensed Version)". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2010.

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• Without books we're a very uneducated society. Think of the places books have taken us, the people we've been introduced to (fiction or non-fiction) and how books have allowed us to broaden our vocabulary.

  Tom Robinson

  Book, Taken, Thinking

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• They say that there is no reality before it has been given shape by words rules regulations. They say that in what concerns them everything has to be remade starting from basic principles. They say that in the first place the vocabulary of every language is to be examined, modified, turned upside down, that every word must be screened.

  Monique Wittig

  Reality, Shapes, Regulation

  Monique Wittig (2007). “Les Guerilleres”, p.111, University of Illinois Press

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• Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.

  Laura Huxley

  Life Is Like, Quality, Succeed

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• Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary.

  Amos Oz

  Thinking, People, Compromise

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world.

  Julian Jaynes

  Real, Mind, World

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.

  Nelson Shanks

  Real, Artist

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• In the mid-fifties, a revolution occurred and a new word entered the vocabulary of commercial art. Concept... But the change was not entirely good. Our gain was also a loss... There was great value in something well observed and carefully delineated. If the head and heart were often absent, there was something to be said for the presence of a hand.

  R. O. Blechman

  Art, Loss, Hands

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