Language Representation Quotes

Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always wanted to use my mother tongue in an Indian film.

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.

I think it's really important that we have diversity - whether it's different languages, cultures - be involved in film and in the arts.

When a Spanish actor does an accent, that's sexy. When Peter Sellers did a French accent in 'Pink Panther,' that's funny - he got nominated for a Golden Globe. How come whenever an Asian actor does an accent, he's stereotyping?

For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.

I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how I talk a lot of the time. So I'm not trying to advance a social cause.

We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself.

English is my language because of the history, and what I try to do - and I did that in 'Carpentaria' in particular - is to write in the way we tell stories and in the voice of our own people and our own way of speaking.

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.

That's acting for you. 'White Queen' has English playing Welsh and vice versa.

I felt very motivated to release some things in English because I wanna represent my community.

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

'The Woman on the Train' just didn't sound as good. I'll take care next time not to have 'girl' in the title.

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

I think that the development of any culture has something to do with the way people deal with the concept of illusion. The fact that the sound of my voice and the way I modulate it creates pictures in your head... in order for us to accumulate knowledge, we have to create symbolic exchanges that let ourselves be fooled temporarily by something that's not there - by a substitute for reality. When you talk about representation, you're talking about language.

My mother was a barmaid and I was raised in a trailer park. I'm used to that language. I put it on the screen so that people could interpret it as they wish.

All that I can say is people who represents Karnataka in the Rajya Sabha should speak our language and represent our interests. How can your neighbour safeguard your interests when he cannot even speak your language or understand your difficulties. So, it is better to have our own people.

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional view our minds are abstract, logical, unemotionally rational, consciously accessible, and, above all, able to directly fit and represent the world. Language has a special place in thie view of what a human is - it is a privileged, logical symbol system internal to our minds that transparently expresses abstract concepts that are defined in terms of the external world itself.

I spent most of my life getting the word "negro" to be spelled with a capital "N." By the time I finally got that done people were using the word "black" with a small "b.