"It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a neutral and impersonal language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his words!), but rather it exists in other people's mouths, in other people's contexts, serving other people's intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one's own"

-- Mikhail Bakhtin

#People Quotes #Doe Quotes #Mouths Quotes

“I'm trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe next to money, but in fact they both motor each other.”
“The strong were always eating the weak.”

Source : "Deep Fathom". Book by James Rollins, July 3, 2001.
“And you can tell that Britney Spears is struggling with who she is. I think she has a team of agents and managers who are saying, yes, push the envelope, kiss Madonna, take off all your clothes. And sheâ€™s doing that because she doesnâ€™t want to sacrifice this enormous platform that sheâ€™s built. But at the same time, she is sacrificing herself and you can see that in her eyes when she talks.”
“I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.”
“There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.”
“When the money dries up, the sites die off. That's the way to go after piracy.”
“How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?”

Source : "Test Drive" by Paul Goldberger, www.newyorker.com. October 12, 2009.
“I don't need to play villains or anything like that to show people that I'm different. I just want to be a part of stories that hold up over time. Too much of this stuff is forgettable. When it comes to being an actor, I don't know how good I am but I always say this, I've never been the problem in the cast. I just want to keep that streak up and do more projects in the future, that's it.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Jaleel White On Who Made the Potatoe Salad?". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. November 3, 2006.

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