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David Crystal Quotes

We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety and why it is there.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: english
Birth: July 6, 1941

Topics

Language Generation Understanding Why

Just like my agent had told me, Tom Brady is a really cool, down to earth guy.

Jimmy Garoppolo

Me Cool Down Earth Down To Earth

I always wanted to do a family show.

Family Always Show Wanted

Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.

More Band Like Fleetwood Mac Mac

I tell people, 'I'm American. I act.'

People American Tell Act

College, for me, was more about wrestling than actually going to classes.

College Me Wrestling More Going

I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it.

Myself Past Thinking Look Say Want

The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all over the place. You can have a mistake in a novel. A short story has to be perfect.

Mistake Energy Story Universe Short

For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.

Work Blessing Day Every Day Go

I think life is about growing into yourself and getting to like that person.

Life Yourself Think Person Growing

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow, that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

Find Grey Try Human Hard Things

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

Aretha Franklin

Love Love Is Losing Falling Out Off

I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

Silence People Talking Down Play

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