We’ve collected the best Right Word Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Davis Guggenheim, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Eva Braun, Anna Deavere Smith, Catherine Drinker Bowen. Use them as an inspiration.
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If a movie can take you to the place that I’ve been to, and the audience can experience what I’ve experienced, then I feel – success might not be the right word, but I’m satisfied that I did my job.
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At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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Friends sometimes ask me, ‘When you get the ball what are you thinking?’ But you do not have time to think. You have to do it. It’s not instinct; that’s not the right word, but it’s how you feel in this moment. You sense it. It’s trained, but it’s trained inside you. It makes you faster in the moment.
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It’s rude to not try and look up-to-date. Is rude the right word? Yes! It’s rude – rude to other people.
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I feel like every role you take, there’s a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don’t know if perfect is the right word because I don’t believe in perfection. I don’t think it exists.
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Fun wouldn’t be the right word… it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I’ve ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
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‘Pigeonholed‘ isn’t the right word, because I feel like I’ve had a very wide range of characters that I’ve been allowed to play.
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I think I’m very consistent, that’s the right word.
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I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that’s the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up – either religious or social laws – become meaningless.
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