"I don't know that I would say words are more political now, particularly after Donald Trump has come into office. I will say that what I notice is that people pay more attention to the words that politicians use. They really want to understand the full nuance, the connotative meanings of those words."

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Kory Stamper

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“There is always room in our budget for a little experimentation.”
“Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.”

Source : "Rescue". Book by Czeslaw Milosz, 1945.
“Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.”
“In England we see people lulled sleep with solid and elaborate discourses of piety, who would be warmed and transported out of themselves by the bellowings and distortions of enthusiasm.”
“I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.”
“Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand? Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside your window, then raise your hand and position your fingers around the disk of light. There you goÂ .Â .Â . That was easy!”
“I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.”

Source : "Orioles' Palmeiro Suspended for Steroids". www.foxnews.com. August 1, 2005.
“Murder begins where self-defense ends.”

Source : "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.

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