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“An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.”

Whole Actors Acting Personality Ego Judgment Appearance Critical Intellect Vulnerable Exposed Diction Best Acting

Author:Alec Guinness

“No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame.”

Source: The necessity of prayer

“But Michael Jackson didn't have perfect diction - He said 'chamone' instead of 'come on'.”

Said Perfect Diction

Author:will.i.am

“With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing richness of landscape, and the soul-wound wrought by casual defacement. Abbate has a superb capacity for distillation and a mastery of poetic line, and her diction is remarkably flexible, accommodating both the demotic and the lyrical. Her poems are as consistent in quality as they are varied in pacing, surface, and tone. A fine first book.”

“I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.”

Want Writing Fall Alive Range Anxious Vocabulary Diction

Author:James Agee

“Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the new generations have all to learn. There may possibly be books without a polished language, but there can be no polished language without books.”

Men Firsts May Book Language Behinds Generations Childhood Literacy Elegance Vocal Eloquence New Generation Polished Diction Exactness

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“Fact is richer than diction.”

Author:J. L. Austin

“Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates “in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.”

Beautiful Spirit Expression Preaching Polish Demonstration Cleverness Apostolic Diction

Book:In the Day of Thy Power: The Spiritual Principles of Revival

Source: In the Day of Thy Power: The Spiritual Principles of Revival

“The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.”

Firsts Littles Long Book Different Character Stories Use Language Novel Approach Landscape Different Characters Diction Different Approach Use Of Language Long Book

Author:Donna Tartt