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Neither of my parents had English as a first language.

Maryanne Trump Barry

Parents Language First English Had

What makes international cinema so interesting is that each territory has its own sensibility. When you look at an Indian or French film, there's a certain flavor. And even though the language is different, if the film is successful, it has something very common and understandable.

Language Interesting You Look Cinema

George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what '1984' shows is that language can be a dirty trick.

Language Political Dirty Personal

I think that anybody who is going to be the standard-bearer, the spokesman for the progressive movement, in the context of a presidential race, has got to learn to master the language and really get their finger on the pulse of how people are feeling. I think that's really important.

People Think Language Learn Feeling

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.

John Wesley Powell

Language Tongue Greater Than Much

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.

Life Time Myself Past Language Feel

My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical direction is because that's the shape of the language. I didn't make that shape.

Food Direction Language Landscape

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

Language Universal Directing Movie

No sooner my kids leave their friends than they start texting them. And it's all in code in a language I totally don't understand.

Start Language Friends Understand

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

Language Would Fantastic Even Other

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Growth Time Free Language Race

There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you're bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don't.

Speak Think Language America You

On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.

Change People World Language Changes

The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.

Live Moment Best Language Embrace

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Communication Truth Language Tool

Learning Indian mannerisms, how to wear saris, and the language were a challenge.

Learning Challenge Language Wear How

I've been subtle in my taste. It's all about solid colours - mostly blue, white, and black. Also, I believe one should always feel comfortable in what they wear. Because when they're not, their body language is always a big give-away.

Blue Believe Black Language Body

I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'

Money Cool Writing Think Language

CIOs have earned a strategic seat at the table, but now they've got to hold that seat - and the only way they can do that is to converse in the language of business value and business benefits and business outcomes that all align perfectly with the strategic agenda of the company.

Business Value Language Table Way

People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.

People Speak Language Sometimes Well

I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language.

Love People Me Book Language See

I feel that art is beyond language.

Art Language Feel Beyond I Feel

Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate.

Language Kind Floor Just Senate Use

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

William Hazlitt

Book Language Dead Scholar Like

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