"Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics."

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Source : Roman Jakobson (1971). “Selected Writings: Word and Language”, p.561, Walter de Gruyter

Roman Jakobson

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“For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .”
“As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure of human well-being. Even as basic an issue as poverty has to be re-examined to take into account the psychological sense of deprivation that makes people feel poor.”
“I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and is capable of touching other people's minds and souls.”
“I'm an actor that loves to eat on camera. I love it. Something about the act of eating means that you actually can't act as much. You have to be involved in the very real task of trying to ingest sustenance without choking and dying. Something about that process takes the heat off trying to act and often feels more natural.”

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“What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?”
“I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.”

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“All of science is largely formalized common sense.”
“I was born to be a ballerina - my physique, my spirit, my feeling for music. What I am can only be expressed in dance. I am an erotic woman and that's what dance is.”

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