Few people. . . have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is … - S. I. Hayakawa

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I think there's a lack of quality roles for women in comedies. Most actresses get cast as the "eye-roller" or "the serious one," while men in comedies get to do all the fun, silly stuff and muck around. Sometimes you just have to search hard for a role or create one for yourself.

S. I. Hayakawa

Few people. . . have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.

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Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.

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It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

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Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

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The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.

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In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

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