"I love the language. I'm just totally fascinated by the sound and the look of words and the kinds of cadences you can create with them, the various kinds of music."

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Source : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

Pattiann Rogers

#Sound Quotes #Looks Quotes #Cadence Quotes

“I wanted to let my employees know what will come if they make the wrong choice. They need to worry if Obama gets reelected.”
“I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.”

Source : "Turkey Today" by Grace Ellison, London: Hutchinson, 1928.
“The old foundations of success are gone ... The world's wealthiest man, Bill Gates, owns nothing tangible: no land, no gold or oil, no factories ... For the first time in history the world's wealthiest man owns only knowledge.”

Source : Lester C. Thurow (2009). “Building Wealth: The New Rules for Individuals, Companies, and Nations in a Knowledge-Based Economy”, p.11, Harper Collins
“You only get a second to score a goal in football. In Wolves' case it was 20 seconds”
“The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.”
“Reality is, you have to work harder the older you get.”
“They're a handful, but Emily deals with that all the time and, as an actor, I deal with that all the time, so you just ignore it. When Julia [Jones] first came on set, she was like, "How do you deal with it?," and I told her, "You just tune it out after awhile." They were competing with each other, doing push-ups and just being ridiculous, so you just have to zone out.”
“There are still preserved among Christians traces of that Holy Spirit that appeared in the form of a dove. They expel evil spirits, perform many cures, and foresee certain events.”

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