Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.
Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.
When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.
It is okay to experiment with language. Writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf experimented with writing, but basically, one must have a familiarity with the language. And to have that, one must respect it.
If you're not geographically diverse, it's hard to even speak a language that makes sense to folks in faraway places. That's especially a problem in the West, where voters have always mistrusted the federal government.
Every usage, no matter how bizarre or nonstandard, fascinates me, as it tells me something about the way language is evolving.
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
There's no reason to continue including language in the federal spending bill to prohibit the CDC and NIH from studying the causes or effects of gun violence on public health.
You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
The cinematic language and interior destiny of each Iranian film-maker is different. The international influences on them vary from Rossellini to Fellini, Akira Kurosawa to Hou Hsiao-hsien, but there is a strong sense of solidarity.
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
Bollywood is not a stepping stone to the West. I am extremely picky and in no hurry to sign a Hollywood film. I am only greedy for great roles; language and country is no barrier. And yes, I'll always be a Hindi film star first.
I draw the line at filth and crude language. It seems to be an excuse for not being funny.
Finality is not the language of politics.
As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success.
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
Every individual's listening is as unique as his or her fingerprints because we all listen through filters that develop from our personal mix of culture, language, values, beliefs, attitudes, expectations and intentions. That is why one person's musical taste is another person's hideous noise.
People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak.
I've travelled to some of the places where Russian language and Russian culture were made part of the fabric of life long before Lenin arrived at Finland Station - and where Russian is now being rolled back, post-1991.
