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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

My definition of cursing is probably different from what other people's definitions are.

I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently.

There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.

I curse too much. I really do. I have a horrible cursing mouth.

I grew up cursing a lot.

I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age.

I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.