"Language doesn't belong to grammarians, linguists, wordsmiths, writers, or editors. It belongs to the people who use it. It goes where people want it to go, and, like a balky mule, you can't make it go where it doesn't want to go."

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Source : Rosalie Maggio, The Women's Media Center (2015). “Unspinning the Spin: The Women's Media Center Guide to Fair and Accurate Language”, p.30, Open Road Media

Rosalie Maggio

#Editors Quotes #People Quotes #Want Quotes

“We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.”
“I didn't think it would be possible, but it appears Isiah Thomas is a worse general manager than coach.....”
“... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from the hands of the bondman without being mindful that he is such. O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience!”
“I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.”
“I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.”
“I am a movement chauvinist.”

Source : "The real reason for brains". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. July 2011.
“I didnt have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus.”
“I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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