Aidan Chambers
Related To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language. NATE LOWMAN DAVID HARE DAVID LEVITHAN Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalit... ALMA GUILLERMOPRIETO HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL MADS MIKKELSEN This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what peopl... FREDDIE HIGHMORE I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if ... JUDY BLUME MARLEE MATLIN That does make it look as if they are discriminating against the Spanish-language part, not the cont... ESTEVAN FLORES It's not the same alphabet, and not at all the same as a romance language. DEBBIE GUZZI Coach Cunningham's my guy. Without me saying a word, he can read my body language and facial exp... NDAMUKONG SUH I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are ... RACHEL WEISZ It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves.... JOHN CLEESE SAM SHEPARD Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interes... ADAM D'ANGELO And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ... CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS STEPHEN R. COVEY JANE KACZMAREK I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can el... KATE GRENVILLE Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all t... DAVID JAMES ELLIOTT It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never ... MAX VON SYDOW People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emi... PIERRE SCHAEFFER As far as Beau is concerned, we're on the same team, we root for each other. If my parts are sli... JEFF BRIDGES I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be. DAVID DOBKIN I think that in an Internet age, content is content. As long as you can stand up on the merits of wh... RIZ AHMED GEORGE CARLIN ALFRED HITCHCOCK SEAN BERDY I've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as... AARON SCHOCK DAVID OGILVY LARRY THE CABLE GUY When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And... MALESE JOW I think if they take out the language about inflation, as well as leave in the 'measured' (at future... DONALD SELKIN DAVID CRYSTAL I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed m... NORAH JONES I want everybody to run at the same speed as me. But some people are more conscientious, they think ... EDDIE HUANG Nike came to me and said, 'We're interested in the decathlon and interested in seeing if we ... ASHTON EATON HENRY LOUIS GATES AARON SORKIN I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying abou... EDIE FALCO LADY GREGORY DOUG FLUTIE GEORGE SAUNDERS In fact, the book shows that language is in a rough state of equilibrium: some words disappear and s... GUY DEUTSCHER MICHAEL POLANYI I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as... PAT OLIPHANT People ended up not thinking much of me. They saw me as a bit of a troublemaker. It's important ... DIEGO COSTA Acting in another language is great, and I've done that. But you can't do it as well as you ... EMMANUELLE SEIGNER Lord take me as I am just the way I am. Set my soul ablaze, never quench the flame VENES ALAN MOORE PINK THERESA MAY I think they're doing as much as they can b/c they're not just going to just stand there while someo... LUCY JOHNSON MATT GROENING DONALD KNUTH I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. ... JOHN LOGAN DEYTH BANGER It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help ... WALID MUALLEM MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA As long as a language lives, the war will not perish. VIKRANT PARSAI GAUTAM SINGHANIA They are not working in sync. Working on the same thing at the same time is not as effective as work... REGGIE JOINER Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content. ROBERT SMITHSON Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, do... P. J. O'ROURKE Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questio... PATRICIA REILLY GIFF ALEX TAN JAMES GUNN In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get. GAYLE GARDNER BRIE LARSON KEHLANI I think more and more the students are just seeing that, as we're getting more Spanish speaking peop... CRAIG WATSON Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they... ALEXANDRA FULLER When I encountered rich people for the first time, I discovered that not only do they holiday in pla... ARTIE LANGE The first time I went to the grocery store it was crazy. I couldn't read any of the labels because t... ADRIENNE NORRIS DAVID REMNICK We as governors, whether we're Republican or Democrat, we really believe that we know what's... JAN BREWER TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility. IMAM ALI (AS) The way I was brought up in improv was that any idea you have is not as good as your partner's i... SCOTT ADSIT ERNST HAAS It's important to me that talking about my experience not undermine those who choose differently... VIVIENNE MING DAVID MITCHELL ROBERT REDFORD I've found numerous things - settlements, temples, possible pyramids, forts, roads - the list go... SARAH PARCAK KEN JEONG I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of int... IRA GLASS CRAIG GROESCHEL I was very interested to see if the PDC sessions would have any tangible content about where LINQ dr... DANNY THORPE I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting. CATHERINE OPIE JOHNNY WEIR It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who yo... FRED FRITH I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and... CHRIS FARLEY SARAH DESSEN I hope people studying film will take it as my generation's chance to provide a new language, a new ... SUDHANSHU SARIA DAVID CRYSTAL AIMEE BENDER People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. CHARLES KETTERING I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here... JANE CAMPION
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An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity. 
We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our liv... 
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel... 
One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as mu... 
There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn&#... 
On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source ... 
What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b... 
I like to be with my children - not just quality time, but quantity time. I like to be there in the ... 
I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it d... 
Content, I am not interested in that at all. I don't give a damn what the film is about. I am more i... 
I can see that 'Switched at Birth' is attracting audiences because of the diversity and the ... 
I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or... 
As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're lau... 
Every usage, no matter how bizarre or nonstandard, fascinates me, as it tells me something about the... 
One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black... 
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The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in G... 
The trouble is that right now I want to put as much work into football as I can. It's very impor... 
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So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it... 
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I find it interesting that these same few people that signed the petition are willing to let the cit... 
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It's the same thing,' I told her.
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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.