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An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.

Lion Feuchtwanger

Being

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.

Bryan Ferry

Words

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

Bryan Ferry

Music

Words

The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.

I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening.

Sherilyn Fenn

Words

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.

If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.

You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.

However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

Dennis Farina

Trying

Words

The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.

Dennis Farina

Fun