Allison Janney Quotes

But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

I used to spell everything phonetically, or I would have little tricks for words I could not figure out.

Computers absolutely changed my life. Before I had a computer, I had never written one thing. Not one thing. I'm a very bad speller and I was embarrassed by that. When I would type, the little mistakes would make me nutty, and I would never edit anything.

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

I collect misspellings of my last name. Jame McRoy, McGros, Legras - it's become kind of a sport.

Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.

One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult.

I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.

I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

Spell check exists for a reason.

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.

When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

You do see very few English players going abroad and those that do are largely good players otherwise they wouldn't have gone, but I feel a lot of their downfall is in the language. On the pitch you can learn the different basics of 'left,' 'right' and 'behind you' but off the pitch you want to have that influence around the team.

I have horrible handwriting, horrible spelling and horrible grammar.

My diary is a disaster...I can't spell at all...I'll spell the same word completely differently in the same sentence.

Having translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However, I am not shocked, as it is not hard to find out what the words mean.

Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.

I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.