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The writer’s first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language. (First Language Quotes)
When preparing a role, I work first on the body language and physical aspects of the performance; the psychological dimension comes naturally once I’m in character. (First Language Quotes)
First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we’ve imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about openness and transparency. (First Language Quotes)
I speak to people in the languagethey understand. First I have a dialogue, if that is not understood I speak inanother language. There is no remedy for this. (First Language Quotes)
Women want to talk first, connect first, then have sex. For men, sex is the connection. Sex is man’s language of intimacy (First Language Quotes)
My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They’re Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English (First Language Quotes)
The Little Friend is a long book. It’s also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story (First Language Quotes)
My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning (First Language Quotes)
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is ‘permanent’, more permanent even than Greek literature (First Language Quotes)
Our parents taught us to love God, love our family and love our country. Their own grandparents were immigrants. Their first language may not have been English, but the hopes and dreams they had for their children were purely American (First Language Quotes)
Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it’s not going to encourage anyone’s betterment (First Language Quotes)
Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don’t know (First Language Quotes)
My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don’t speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I’m proud to be Latina, and most people don’t know I am (First Language Quotes)
I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it’s right, that I haven’t introduced some element that isn’t English (First Language Quotes)
My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was born in Cuba, so with him we spoke Spanish (First Language Quotes)
I think in general I’ve never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language (First Language Quotes)
The first time I was in Stockholm, everybody was real cordial, but I started having these nightmares that I was being watched by aliens, basically all the time. My theory on it was that it was really, really unnerving to be in a place where English isn’t the first language (First Language Quotes)
Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language (First Language Quotes)
Silence is God's first language (First Language Quotes)
Touch is the first language we speak (First Language Quotes)
We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second (First Language Quotes)
French was my first language (First Language Quotes)
Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at (First Language Quotes)
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone (First Language Quotes)
English is my second language. Laughter is my first (First Language Quotes)
Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it (First Language Quotes)
To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life (First Language Quotes)
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth (First Language Quotes)
He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands (First Language Quotes)
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech (First Language Quotes)