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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. -- Epictetus
It took me a while to understand the meaning of a franchise: the reasons why you see lawyer, doctor, cop shows. It's not because anyone in their right mind says, 'You know, what's the most fascinating thing in the world?' It's because you need something new that happens every week in a frame. -- Amy Bloom
The advantage of the gypsy language, even though I don't understand it that much, the language is perfect melody. So if you propose the movie the way I do, then the language is just one part of the melody. Orchestrating all inside, and the language is following the meaning of what they say, and it's never the same as written. -- Emir Kusturica
I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it. -- Kailash Kher
So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. And then by this process of revision, mysteriously it starts to accrete meanings as you go. -- George Saunders
Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can't move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say. -- Christopher Reeve
I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine. -- U.G. Krishnamurti
And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them. -- A.C. Grayling

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