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• I live in New York now, and miss France quite a bit. Of course, the reality of living in a small village in the south of France was very different than the fantasy I had of living in France. Over the years I spent there, that fantasy was worn away and I found a more realistic version of France than the one I began with. I wouldn't say the spell ever goes away, but transforms. Now that I understand French culture more intimately, and speak fluent French, I have a different, more solid, relationship to the country.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Country, New York, Reality

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.

  Karlie Kloss

  Thinking, Chinese, Wish

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• I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it.

  Luis Fortuno

  Kids, Wife, Territory

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• I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have it. They're tone-deaf, even though they're very fluent. It's an ability, like anything else, being a doctor or a veterinarian, or a musician.

  Paula Fox

  Writing, Doctors, Voice

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• When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am comfortable talking in Spanish. I am not flawless or fluent, but I am comfortable. It takes me a day or two speaking a lot of Spanish to get back into a rhythm.

  David Dewhurst

  Talking, Two, Today

  "No Spanish-speaking debate scheduled" by Kolten Parker, blog.chron.com. June 4, 2012.

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• I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

  Sean Connery

  Speaks French, Wife, Speak

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• I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Thinking, Knowing, Want

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• I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed swiftly and irrevocably beneath the quiet solemnity of the vespered air now vibrant with somber chapel bells.

  Ralph Ellison

  Laughter, Gay, Air

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.134, Vintage

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• I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.

  Daryl Hall

  Philadelphia, People, Soul

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• Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to
  make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
  As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If
  we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for
  personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing
  a part of our lives?

  Alan Kay

  Art, Reading, Writing

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• Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Country, Work

  "Along Broadway: The Edison Musical Magazine".

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• I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Art, School, Aggravation

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• I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

  Natalie Portman

  Dream, Years, Hebrew

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• By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Creating, People

  "The Rachel Maddow Show" with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. March 24, 2009.

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• And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are a person's most valuable asset. My own instincts have repeatedly guided me against the grain of logic and probability. When I have trusted and followed their direction, they have never been wrong. I don't know how or why. But I know that every significant experience-positive or negative-sharpens them and makes them more accurate.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Believe, Negative, Genius

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.151, Macmillan

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• A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Daughter, Mother, Tongue

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1872). “The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan”, p.295, London : [s.n.]

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• As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide some guide for a fluent reading.

  Marie Clay

  Children, Reading, Gist

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• It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties or grief's that may beset us.

  Max Beerbohm

  Grief, Light, Hypocrisy

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.71, 1st World Publishing

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• I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three.

  Gregoire Akcelrod

  Reality, Three, France

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• Young Americans today are no more learned or skilful than their predecessors, no more knowledgeable, fluent, up-to-date, or inquisitive, except in the materials of youth culture.

  Mark Bauerlein

  Culture, Today, Youth

  Mark Bauerlein (2008). “The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future(Or, Don 't Trust Anyone Under 30)”, p.9, Penguin

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• Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

  Thanhha Lai

  Mistake, Stubborn, Being Stubborn

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• She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Teaching, Nannies, Pretentious

  "The Real Gwyneth". Interview with Justine Picardie, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 1, 2012.

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• We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

  Buck Henry

  Political, President, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.

  George Steiner

  Believe, Men, Use

  George Steiner (2008). “My Unwritten Books”, p.72, New Directions Publishing

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• Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

  Luis Fortuno

  Children, Parent, Want

  "As GOP Races On, Puerto Rico Could Be Battleground". www.npr.org. February 28, 2012.

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