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• The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

  Ben Kingsley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Word, Justify

• I work on words quite separately to music. They’re both ongoing, and I don’t ever feel like I’m working in a cycle in that respect, because it’s every day anyway, no matter what I’m doing. Then I get to a point when I’ve collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

  P. J. Harvey

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Music, Like, Word

• I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I’m always painting and drawing as well, and it’s an ongoing creative assignment.

  P. J. Harvey

  Topics in Work

  Tags in World, Word, Song

• Words divide us, actions unite us.

  Tupamoros

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Action, Word

• The only power you have is the word no.

  Frances McDormand

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Word

• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn’t get it. We didn’t want the Japanese to get it intact.

  Barney Ross

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Word

• I never use that word, retire.

  B.B. King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Word

• Avoid sarcasm. Don’t insist on the last word.

  Ford Frick

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Insist, Word

• But I think once the word gets out that the movie is funny – funny is transcendent – it will traverse all demographic barriers if people embrace it as a funny movie.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Word

• The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Word, Originally

• But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

  Terri Windling

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Word

• I’m a man of my word.

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Word, Man

• You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

  Samuel Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hesitate, Word

• When I sing, it’s just… comfort is a stupid word, but it is.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Topics in Stupid

  Tags in Word, Sing

• Widow. The word consumes itself.

  Sylvia Plath

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Word

• Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

  Federico Fellini

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bad, Everything, Word

• I’ve always said that the word ‘genius,’ especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

  Ted McGinley

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Said, Word

• We use the word ‘hope’ perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: ‘I hope it’s a nice day.’ ‘Hopefully, you’re doing well.’ ‘So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.’

  Studs Terkel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hope, Word

• That was the problem with the ‘celibate’ word because they don’t consider for a moment that you’d rather not be, but you just are. I was never a s*xual person.

  Steven Morrissey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Word

• Well, I am not afraid of the word ‘liberal.’

  Cynthia McKinney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Afraid, Word