People Talking Quotes - Page 5

• It's so ironic that you often hear these right-wing people talking about the Constitution.

  George Saunders

  Talking, Wings, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've noticed a lot of people talking about the wealth of roles for powerful women in television lately. And when I look around the room at the women here and I think about the performances that I've watched this year, what I see actually are women who are sometimes powerful and sometimes not. Sometimes sexy and sometimes not. Sometimes honourable and sometimes not. And what I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary and it's what turning me on.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Sexy, Powerful, Thinking

  "Golden Globe Awards 2015 Live Updates: Winners, Best Moments, Speeches, Photos And More". Maggie Gyllenhaal's Golden Globe speech for Best Actress in a Mini-Series or TV Movie Award, www.ibtimes.com. January 11, 2015.

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• As a basketball fan, I get sick and tired of people talking about numbers. To me, the world is getting too materialistic.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Tired, Talking

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• When I see people talking on the internet about me or my work it's almost always more a description of themselves and so I never really think of myself as anything more than just who I always was.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Talking, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• What I've really learned is to be open to listen to other people's opinions and then question my own thoughts. And learn how to talk to people. The biggest gift from having one of these moments is that it gets people talking.

  Brandi Chastain

  Talking, People, Opinion

  "Brandi Chastain talks about LeBron dustup". Interview with Dan Fleschner, www.today.com. March 27, 2008.

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• Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes. Flooding, storms, droughts are all getting people talking about climate change. I wonder if someday Atlanta will run out of water?

  David Titley

  Running, Responsibility, Atlanta

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The people talking on their cell phone and following GPS instructions to where grandma's house is saying I don't need space - excuse me, that's how you know where grandma lives, and when to make the left turn.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Grandma, Gps, Phones

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• You listen to any monologue on late-night TV or just in general, to people talking, and there's always a joke at someone's expense. It's sarcasm; it's nasty. Kids grow up hearing that, and they think that's what humor is, and they think it's OK. But that negativity permeates the entire planet.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Growing Up, Kids, Sarcasm

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• Don't have conversations taking place in empty space. Weave in background details of where the action (dialogue is a form of "action") is taking place. Don't have invisible people talking, either. Let the reader see them as they speak - their facial expressions and gestures. And by all means "cue" the speeches to the speakers.

  Lee Wyndham

  Writing, Mean, Space

  Lee Wyndham (1972). “Writing for children and teen-agers”, Writer's Digest Books

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• There's nothing worse than people talking about theories and humor.

  John Currin

  Talking, People, Theory

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You've only got to walk into a pub or a café or anything and you'll find people talking about topics they're very unhappy with. You feel as though things are being eroded and people don't know where they belong anymore.

  Sean Bean

  Talking, People, Unhappy

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear much resemblance to real-life dialogue. For example, if you've ever seen a word-for-word transcript of people talking, it doesn't read off the page very well. The trick is to make it *seem* like it's being spoken, not to make it speakable.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Real, Book, Reading

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• Well digital media and social media are eliminating the middle man - in the old days, you had to go through the editors. Or the television producer, you know? Now you have people talking directly to each other, globally who have never met. I think you put the "word" in "word of mouth."

  Kelly Cutrone

  Men, Thinking, Talking

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• In my career, I've had people talking about different things many times, but then not get nominated.

  Forest Whitaker

  Talking, Careers, People

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I don't like the theatre. I like plays in which the audience is addressed by the actors. I don't like seeing people talking to each other on stage as if there isn't an audience.

  Jonathan Meades

  Talking, Play, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• You had to pick up a landline to make sure your best friend wore a matching outfit to school. I do remember people talking more. Nostalgia is dangerous, though.

  Lauren Groff

  School, Talking, People

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• The fun thing about journalism is if you go do a story about something, you can now ask three intelligent questions about it. Or say three intelligent things. And that gets people talking.

  Joel Stein

  Fun, Intelligent, Talking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I try to make all my work as honest as possible. I want the audience to feel like they're watching two people talking-having a conversation-as opposed to watching actors fake it. I want the audience to get lost in the fact that this is so good it could be real.

  Danny Burstein

  Real, Talking, Two

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• As a writer I'm committed to exploring what I call "The invisible things" - the things that people aren't talking about. I think that's where the juiciest conversations and the juiciest drama lives. My goal with the series is to get people talking about and reflecting on how issues of race play out in their own lives. Since I've spent a fair amount of time watching time travel shows and movies where the leads are White (and can blend in really easily no matter the time period) I thought I would turn that on its head and see what might happen.

  Steven C. Harper

  Drama, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I think following my instinct has proven to lead me in the right direction, and it's hard to hear sometimes, because it's a noisy world and there's a lot of people talking to you.

  Alicia Keys

  Thinking, Talking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In Western Civilization - America and Britain - if you see people talking and it becomes an argument and voices are raised, you are not surprised if violence follows. Hopefully it won't, but you are not surprised.

  John Gimlette

  Talking, Civilization, Voice

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Half of a broadcast show, in my experience, is things happening, and the other half is people talking about how they feel about the things that happened. And so there's this sense of everyone saying their subtext out loud.

  Noah Hawley

  Talking, People, Half

  "Noah Hawley on the Life Span of Fargo, Ewan McGregor's Dual Role, and Adapting Cat's Cradle". Interview with Gazelle Emami and Matt Zoller Seitz, www.vulture.com. June 23, 2016.

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