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I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

Language doesn't seem to be a barrier for me to do films in the south.

My dream, play in NBA. When I come here, very difficult for me. It's new country, new language. But is still basketball for me.

At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.

I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language.

It was a very strange time in the late 1950s/early 1960s, when people were putting things in space, but that language of spacecraft hadn't really congealed yet. A lot of artists at that time were looking at them as aesthetic objects.

We live in the United States. British settlers founded the first colony in North America. And English is our language.

The next time you need to win someone over to your way of thinking, try nodding your head as you speak. People unconsciously mirror the body language of those around them in order to better understand what other people are feeling.

People often cover their mouths when lying. A hand on the mouth or even a touch of the lips shows you that they are lying because this unconscious body language represents a closing off of communication.

For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction.

I play characters, and I try to play them in a manner that's appropriate to the script. Physical movement and vitality of language is part of character.

You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.

Of all the depressing abuses of language in business, there is none that gets me so incensed as the rampant overuse of the word 'passionate' in company slogans, marketing blurbs, mission statements and on the sides of vans.

I find movies rely upon dialogue too much sometimes, and you lose the power of what really the most basic cinematic language is, which is the visual language.

We think coding should be required in every school because it's as important as any kind of second language.

No matter how wonderful the story, it has to move on something, and that is language. The words that I use, the pace, the rhythm and cadences all need to be there. If they're not there, the story is like a boat that just sits there and doesn't move on the ocean.

There are few things more American than falling back on the language of race when what we're really talking about is class or, more accurate still, manners, values and taste.