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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
AL PACINO

Certainly Director Editor Fourty Language Make Movie Myself Pick Second Stuff Write Year
It’s always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone.
ALAIN PROST

Always Better Contact Direct Everyone Language Speak Team
What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
JOHN BERGER

Animal Capacity Development First Human In Language Men Separate Signal Symbolic
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
HENRY JAMES

Afternoon Always Beautiful English Language Most Summer Word
Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
ADRIENNE RICH

Enough Language Longer Personal
I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
AGNES VARDA

Explain Language Liked Mean Painting Picasso Reality Try Trying
We also try to teach them both Portuguese and Serbian, though English is their primary language.
ADRIANA LIMA

Country English Language Primary Teach Try
Back home everyone said I didn’t have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.
ALAN JAY LERNER

Back Better Everyone Home Language No Said Sound Talent
Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
BILL GRIFFITH

Comics Language People
The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.
WOLE SOYINKA

Address Demonstrate Effectively Find Language Mass Media Must New People Reach Use
The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Development Expression Thought Language Mean Natural Personality Word
At a priesthood meeting… the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard
ABRAHAM H. CANNON

Heard Language Law Man Marriage Plural Strongest Used
If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
JERRY GARCIA

Dialect Language Music Powerful Some Think Universal Very
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Dead Find Hearer Language Prepare Speech Spoken Until Willing Written
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
ALAN PERLIS

Cheval Everything Follow Horse Language Learn Same Trivial Way Word
Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
JERRY GARCIA

Anything Else Insofar Language Music Musician Need Play Universal
It’s the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.
ADRIAN GOSTICK

Guilt Interest Jealousy Language People Sort Subject Suspicion Thinking
Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
LILY TOMLIN

Complain Human Invention Language
When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
ALAN GARNER

Funny Language Money Nibble Weenies
Meditation is the language of God. If we want to know what God’s Will is in our life, if we want God to guide us, mould us and fulfil Himself in and through us, then meditation is the language that we must use.
SRI CHINMOY

God Language Life Meditation See
The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Different Language Only Piece Translate Trying
We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Beat Borrow Language Occasion Vocabulary Word
We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
ADRIENNE RICH

formless Inadequate Language Posses Remain Resource Romance Running Technological Thinking
Symptoms are the body’s mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.
JOHN BROWN

Body Foreign Language Mom Sign
Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Digestion Empicipation Equality Influence Language Leg Profession Strong Weekend Word
The same questions are there in Native American languages, they’re there in native Canadian languages, they’re there is some marginalized European languages, like say, Irish.
NGUGI WA THIONG'O

Country Culture Language Phenomenon Power Problem Relationship
When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
ALAN PERLIS

Done Language Lolipop Need Only Programme Say Someone

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