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It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word primarily, and on screen it's communicated through pictures. So it's always been kind of unnatural to take something that lives on the stage and turn it into moving pictures.
Tracy Letts
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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
Maria Montessori
I'm a first-time father, and it was amazing to me to learn that my son could actually use sign language before the spoken word. I could see this intelligence in his eyes before he could speak: how he could understand what was going on around him and was frustrated by that.
Matt Reeves
Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.
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I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.


Tibor Kalman
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The standard way to record a meeting is to list people's names, the topics, and action items. The visual way is to doodle a rectangle (the table) populated by figures (the participants) sitting around the table with their comments as cartoon word balloons.
Tom Wujec
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You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.
Michael Haneke
I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!'
Nicki Minaj
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
Orlando Bloom
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The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.


John Boyle O'Reilly
Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing.
Lisa See
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Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.
Jeff Vandermeer
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We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.'


John Burroughs
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One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'


Ludwig Wittgenstein
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When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
Henri Bergson
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I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.


Robert Redford
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Success is freedom - scripts coming your way and getting to choose the stories you want to tell.


Rosamund Pike
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With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.
Michelle Obama
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In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.
Shekhar Kapur
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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
Vicente Fox