I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words change their functions in that way. It's one of the most common phenomena about words. They start as one thing, and they end up as something else.
Deborah Tannen
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Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.
Sydney Madwed
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It's fun being able to suit up and go and kick butt and not have to worry about memorizing dialogue. It's a whole different way of acting because you're not depending on the words at all, you're really depending on everything else that you have.
Kelly Hu
WordsFunWorryYouActingGo
My opening words to anybody I hire are, 'I'm an extremely vulnerable person.'
Amitabh Bachchan
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Dancing gives an innate physical awareness - it's physical training. Acting feels like the same medium but just with words.
Elizabeth Debicki
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Lord Byron
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Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.
Anthony Holden
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When you're on set all day, and you don't look people in the eye, it's really relaxing. Normally when you talk to someone, a lot of the conversation is in the body language and in the eye contact and stuff. And if you don't do that, if you just listen to the words, it's quite relaxing, because there's just one thing to focus on.
Ryan Cartwright
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Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.
John Langdon
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The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
Henry James Sumner Maine
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The reality is, to watch Jon Stewart, you already have to have watched the news. In other words, it's not funny if he does a joke about John McCain and they don't know who John McCain is.
Roger Ailes
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A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan Perlis
WordsPictureWorthPicturesOnly
Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'
Chris Hayes
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A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.
Pope Francis
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One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.
Kristin Bauer van Straten
WordsControlActingKnowNothing
The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.
Alton Brown
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There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I'm almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn't failing, it's getting too comfortable. Every day, we're writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure and that's made all the difference.
Drew Houston
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Words are the small change of thought.
Jules Renard
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Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.
Anthony Weiner
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As great a public speaker as I am, I don't know have - I don't - I don't have the words to describe Cub fans who welcomed me as a rookie, were patient through my 1-for-32 start, and took me into their homes and into their hearts and treated me like a member of their family. You picked me up when I was down.
Ryne Sandberg
FamilyGreatWordsI AmMeStart
Any audition that I have now, I feel like it's easier for me to learn the words because of my time on 'One Life to Live.'
Meghann Fahy
LifeLiveTimeWordsMeLearn
With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words.
Glen Campbell
GoodWordsForgetStatementSongs
I suppose if I went to Turkey - I mean, I can't imagine going that far away, but if I did go to Turkey, yes, I would probably try to know 'please' and 'sorry' and 'thank you', and 'a beer please', and all the useful words.
Robert Webb
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I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.
Alan Zweibel
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