Talking Quotes - Page 6

• I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your life is structured around whatever book you're writing, and so is your reading and so are many of your conversations.

  Sheila Heti

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Should I Go to Grad School?: An Interview with Sheila Heti". Interview with Jessica Loudis, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2014.

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• I'm especially baffled by the idea of taking insurance against a U.S. default. If America defaults, we're talking about a chaotic world - Mad Max, more or less - in which case, who imagines that insurance claims will be honored?

  Paul Krugman

  Ideas, America, Mad

  "Ask the Author Live: Larissa MacFarquhar with Paul Krugman". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. February 19, 2010.

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• I enjoy just being cocooned in production and it's completely different to your other life that you have. I enjoy that. I enjoy being on the set and hanging out and talking to whoever we're working with and just being in the moment.

  Eric Bana

  Different, Just Being, Moments

  "Eric Bana Interview, Hanna". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.

  Carrie Fisher

  Media, Want, Matter

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Carrie Fisher". Interview with Nancy Tobin, www.bphope.com. February 1, 2010.

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• And you know, we were talking about American identity, and where we've come from and where we are and where we're headed. We knew that we wanted to have a hopeful ending and we wanted it to be pro-community, and a pro-democracy type of movie.

  Matt Damon

  Hopeful, Community, Identity

  "Matt Damon Talks ‘Promised Land’, Writing, Directing & Reuniting with Affleck". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. January 4, 2013.

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• My whole family is quite petite, so I have good genes on my side. But I find it quite tiresome that we have to keep talking about sizes and how much weight we can lose.

  Anna Friel

  Sides, Size, Weight

  "Anna Friel: I'm up for a nip/tuck - it can knock 10 years off you". Mirror.Co.Uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 20, 2008.

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• Yes, because it's Len's obsession with practical. I've never really had that experience that I hear people having of being on an empty soundstage painted green talking to a tennis ball on a stick.

  Kate Beckinsale

  People, Tennis, Balls

  Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• I'm not a showbiz person. I just enjoy talking nonsense on the radio. I'm not bothered about going to clubs or the paparazzi, I genuinely prefer my neighbours. Spending time with my family and watching Coronation Street are what I love best. People are just people, aren't they?

  Tony Blackburn

  Love Is, People, Clubs

  The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• There's something really emotional about not having any sound. That allows, I think, the audience to participate more actively and kind of imagine what are they talking about there?

  Pete Docter

  Emotional, Thinking, Sound

  "The Motion/Captured Interview: Pete Docter talks about directing Pixar’s ‘Up’". Interview with Drew McWeeny, uproxx.com. May 26, 2009.

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• Talking about your hair becomes a framework for talking about your vanity, your self-esteem, your relationships with your family, your mortality.

  Elizabeth Benedict

  Self Esteem, Vanity, Hair

  Source: nytlive.nytimes.com

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• Sometimes when my fans come up to me, they think it's going to be entertaining, like I'm going to tell jokes or do bits, and then instead of that I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they're kind of like, "This is boring. I want to go talk to somebody else." I think I bore my fans to death by over-talking to them.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Thinking, Fans, Want

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It [voicing animation] is very freeing. Nobody in the cast is doing their voice. No one is talking like they normally talk and it's because, all of a sudden, you're freed from the physical limitations of how you look, which is amazing.

  Jason Segel

  Voice, Looks, Animation

  Source: collider.com

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• It's very difficult to find the time or the money for people to organize rehearsals for some movies. It staggers me how little preparation often goes into these scenes which are difficult and complicated. You think, "God, it's crazy. I've never met this person before and here I am having to work at how to do a whole performance on the set." It was great to have a few days of just talking to Michael [Caine] and Daniel [Barber] and thinking about the characters and the relationship between them before we started shooting.

  Emily Mortimer

  Crazy, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it was the perfect gestation time for this particular piece [ Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song]. One of the songs that I considered talking about was "Manhattan," because it was chronicling the end of a long relationship that was part of the reason why I moved from Los Angeles to New York, which was such a life-changing decision. I don't regret that it's not in there, but that's one that I considered diving into, and I have little piecemeal snippets of writing about that floating around

  Sara Bareilles

  Song, New York, Regret

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Integrity - No one will ever use conjuctions talking about you. "He is a good preacher... but..."

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Integrity, Use

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• I think the act of talking about something - with a friend, or someone in your family, or someone you care about, and you're discussing something that you both admire - can often sharpen your thoughts about what you've read or seen and help you think more clearly about it.

  Paul Auster

  Thinking, Care, Helping

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• I don't like talking about my work at all. I find it very difficult. I never know what to say. It's too close to me, and there's so many things happening unconsciously while I'm working that I'm not aware of, and people will point these things out to me, and I'll say, "That's interesting." But I don't know what to make of it.

  Paul Auster

  People, Interesting, Difficult

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• Just as a man is fulfilled through working out the intricate details of solving a problem, a woman is fulfilled through talking about the details of her problems.

  John Gray

  Relationship, Money, Men

  John Gray (2009). “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: Practical Guide for Improving Communication”, p.36, Zondervan

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• A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

  Francis Bacon

  Justice, Judging, Cymbals

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• Ways to be actively involved in the solution: 1. Consider adoption. 2. Be a regular giver of your money to Crisis Pregnancy Centers. 3. Volunteer in a Crisis Pregnancy Center. 4. Be involved in spreading truth with good literature. 5. Make your presence know at the abortion clinics in town (by) writing or phoning or visiting and talking, if you can, with those who work there. 6. Dream a new kind of ministry. 7. Pray!

  John Piper

  Dream, Pregnancy, Writing

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• When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.

  Samuel Butler

  Science, Law, People

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.121, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.

  Barbara Bush

  Fun, Careers, Joy

  Barbara Bush (2015). “Barbara Bush: A Memoir”, p.547, Simon and Schuster

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• After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Typewriters, Games

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

  John McLaughlin

  Dedication, Years, Age

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• Trees are very good friends. Firm friends. My five year olds tree could be relied upon to be there next day, uncritical and protective. And think of trees contribution to our lives. They provide boats, buildings, paper, furniture and, for clog-wearers, footwear. As well as contributing toothpicks and chopsticks they give little birdies somewhere comfy to sit. Best of all, they help produce breathable air and lock up that naughty carbon. Why is why I am talking to the Greens about giving trees the vote.

  Phillip Adams

  Good Friend, Naughty, Thinking

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