#scribe

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

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Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy. ↗

— America Ferrera

#earnest #everybody #feel #happy #i

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. ↗

— John Cheever

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My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#departure #described #hollywood #i #understood

Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life. ↗

— Chris Burke

#being #born #describe #different #different ways

I'm a very outgoing person. I'm always happy, I'm one of those people who are always smiling. If somebody described me to somebody else, they'd say the kid with the curly hair with the big smile on his face. I get along with everybody. ↗

— Corbin Bleu

#always #big #curly #described #else

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#described #easily #impulses #man #primary

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day. ↗

— Jesse Eisenberg

#behave #comfortable #day #feels #get

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest," you're wrong because I have just described my kids. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now. ↗

— Ken Burns

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