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It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.
When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me.
Yes, I've always been quiet about my personal life and I've never really spoken about what I was doing apart from work.
I think, from every actor I've ever spoken to, they say the biggest thing they regret from life is not finishing school.
There is an obvious truth here that must be spoken. The truth is that Assad, Russia, and Iran have no interest in peace.
It's crazy to be spoken about like Mascherano. He's won everything: Champions League, La Ligas; he's been at World Cups.
If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
The threat from the far right is as corrosive as the twisted Islamist ideologies so many Muslims have spoken out against.
There are more than thousand mother tongues spoken in our country. This is not just a number but a reason to be proud of.
My dad was a quiet assassin. He was really charming and smiley and softly spoken, but he could knock you out in a second.
To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
I've spoken about politics a lot over the years and my main issue that I championed was just general engagement in politics.
I'm glad I'm a woman; I'm glad I'm a rapper because I get to speak to these people who did not get spoken for in this genre.
Governor Kasich has done some things that I applaud and have supported and spoken out in favor of, such as Medicaid expansion.
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.
I am aware of importance of the No.7 shirt. Cristiano Ronaldo had spoken to me at Real Madrid and told me how important it was.
I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
For decades, I've spoken of McDonald's as one of the premier examples of how to build a company, scale it, and ultimately sell it.
I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.
Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.
When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.
One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.
It's an artist's choice to speak up about social issues, but I think it's really important, and my favorite artists have spoken out.
From his first hours as pope, Francis has re-enacted or spoken of the great pastoral transformation of Vatican II as his own agenda.
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for everyone to see.
The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action.
Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.
My mom was real loud and that made me speak only when spoken to. But even as a child, if you challenged me, you would get both barrels.
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
The roles I used to be cast for were typically objectified women, so I was always being shown or spoken about through the lens of the guy.
A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.
It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas.
On one hand, I am very pessimistic, but on the other hand, if I didn't believe that speaking up would do something, I wouldn't have spoken.
When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like... they'll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
Xi has made plain that he will no longer tolerate hearing the words 'human rights' spoken out loud in the same sentence with the word 'China.'
Anyone who has spoken to experienced combat troops knows that they rarely brag about their exploits. Strong and silent is the preferred style.
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
'Black-ish' is a show that has spoken to all different types of people and brought them closer as a community, and I'm so proud of the series.
When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.
Every club has legends, and at Barcelona, Cruyff and Pep are going to be spoken about forever, knowing what they've achieved and in what style.