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Word Quotes
"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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"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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"In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand."
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"In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter."
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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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"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."
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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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"Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins."
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"If I told you the words, you wouldn't believe them anyway."
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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 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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"Be aware that the more often a child hears the word no, the greater his need to say no himself."
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"All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing."
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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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"Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away."
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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."
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"We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them."
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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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"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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"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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"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."
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"Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive."
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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 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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"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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"Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few."
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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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"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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"My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness."
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