When you grow up in a family of languages you develop a kind of casual fluency so that languages though differently colored all seem transparent to experience.
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Rob Corddry – I just want to do cool stuff….
I just want to do cool stuff.
Tom Perrotta – I read ‘The Great Gatsby’ in high s…
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Guru Nanak – Death would not be called bad O peopl…
Death would not be called bad O people if one knew how to truly die.
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Peter Mayhew – It was amazing that during rehearsa…
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Georg C. Lichtenberg – Even truth needs to be clad…
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Jose Saramago – The attitude of insolent haughtine…
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Jeff Bridges – Whenever you’re the child of a famo…
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Hans Hofmann – The ability to simplify means to el…
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Angus Young – Yes we’re still five little people w…
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Tom Hanks – As long as you as an individual… can…
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Debra Winger – It’s such an amazing thing to be lo…
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John Podhoretz – Pop culture is a reflection of so…
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