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Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

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" The last time I checked they didn't play the playoffs after three games. We're 1-2. OK, it is what it is. We get back to work, look at the tape, make corrections. You sit here and have a pity party for yourself, and it'll get real ugly real quick. "

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" Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either "

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" We wanted to emphasize his humanity. After all, this was a 9-year-old kid who came to the throne at the most turbulent time that we know about in terms of religion, in terms of philosophy, in terms of art, architecture and language. "

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" Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit. "

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" The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet. "

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" The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life. "

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" I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there. "

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" We decided, OK, we're going to look at the scene every time before we shoot it, ... And Vince and I went, and we looked, and literally down to the body language of when he hands her the pen, how she ducks in from the rain, how she turns to walk out the door, whether she turns to the left or turns to the right. I wanted to hold my purse the same way, to show how specific you can get, and how different it will be, according to what the mind of a person is. "

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" Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. . . says heaven and earth in one word. . . speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time. "

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" We recognize the concerns of the community and, therefore, are going to provide the exact language in the message that pertains to the threat. It is in the form of a postscript: 'Your children are not safe anywhere, at any time,' "

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