Speak Quotes - Page 28

• I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.

  Kirstie Alley

  Agency, Waiting, Agents

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• I think that I write much more naturally about characters in solitude than characters interacting with others. My natural inclination - and one that I've learned to push against - is to give primacy to a character's interior world. Over the three books that I've written, I've had to teach myself that not every feeling needs to be described and that often the most impactful writing more elegantly evokes those unnamed feelings through the way characters speak and behave.

  Stefan Merrill Block

  Book, Writing, Character

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• We were discovered by Don Fury; he was the first record producer who discovered us and essentially plucked us out of the rough. But I think in another way, we were discovered when we discovered each other, right before we started high school. We were 12 and 13. I don't want to speak for Justin Beck, but that's a big moment, linking up with your foil for the first time. Glassjaw definitely changed my life in the biggest way possible.

  Daryl Palumbo

  School, Thinking, Moments

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• All I do is listen to music. It's a weird thing. It's like I have so much catching up to do. I've always been over my head. That's just the way I work best, you know. Like when you're studying for school you think, "I can only study when I have to study the night before." That kind of means you're lazy or you're a procrastinator, but for me with music it's a similar thing. It's like I've been over my head for most of my career so to speak.

  Danger Mouse

  School, Mean, Night

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• I have two sons, ages 23 and 25, and know that parents need to listen more and speak less. Young people today don't always know what's going on or how they fit in, and if someone walks up to them and says, 'Hey, kid: If you listen to me I'll give you power and a sense of purpose,' it can hold tremendous appeal.

  Christian Picciolini

  Kids, Son, People

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• I always appreciate when people save, and more importantly, share. As we speak, there are people in this world - mostly men - who have giant collections of recordings that no one will ever hear. And the value of that collection is almost defined by the fact that nobody else can hear it.

  Ian MacKaye

  Men, People, Appreciate

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• When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting into their truth and to justify what they do.

  Kareem Mortimer

  Writing, Character, Justify

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• That was in 1957. And there I found out that Germany is a kind of province. I didn't know anything about expressionism, about the Bauhaus and Dada and surrealism. I was uneducated, so to speak - and everybody else was more or less uneducated, too.

  Georg Baselitz

  Kind, Surrealism, Uneducated

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• I started collecting my artist friends, artists like myself who nobody had yet noticed. In everything, all I am collecting, so to speak, are my friends - artist friends.

  Georg Baselitz

  Artist

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• Writing the songs is always emotional and most of the vocals on there are the first three takes from the demos, because they give so much more. You're in that moment, so it speaks for itself.

  Tove Lo

  Song, Writing, Emotional

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• When I'm on stage, I turn into this rock person. I give everything I have. I sing with emotion, I'm loving it up there, and I think there's a lot of energy. In the same way that I'm open when I speak, I'm that open on stage. I feed off the energy of the audience too, so they're feeling what I'm feeling. And the set up is great - I have two drummers and a bass guy so it's just us four.

  Tove Lo

  Thinking, Giving, Guy

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• Well, I haven't been an impulsive guy lately because I'm not in control of my own life. I'm living other peoples' requirements at the moment. It's the part of the job that is the most difficult for actors. I'm finding it very soul-jailing, you know? You don't have time to play guitar or speak to your friends and family. It's very demanding. I don't know how people do it, to be honest, without an alcohol.

  Brenton Thwaites

  People, Guy, Alcohol

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• I wanted each different Chelsea to be able to navigate her own world without having to also speak to a larger narrative.

  Chelsea Martin

  World, Different

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• I don't in any way underestimate the difficulties, because it's only gotten harder. But I do think you just have to go into politics with the attitude that you're going to speak clearly and authentically about what you see the country needs...and seek out whatever possible partners you can, even in the other party. I've looked at successful presidents going back. Some of our most successful governed through periods when their party was in charge, and when the other party was in charge. There's no magic formula.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Attitude, Party

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• This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.

  Willie Aames

  My Family, Revitalization, Family Life

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• When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

  John Adams

  Freedom, Laughter, Writing

  Letter to Thomas Jefferson, 15 July 1817

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• It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

  Alfred Adler

  Attitude, Real, Thumbs Down

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• I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

  Aeschylus

  Literature, Forget, Knows

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• Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Leader, Important, Topics

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", transcripts.cnn.com. September 24, 2012.

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• Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Intuition, Criminal Mind, Persuasion

  "Fictional character: Aaron Hotchner". "Criminal Minds". Season 4, Episode 6: "The Instincts", www.imdb.com. November 05, 2008.

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• It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

  Samuel Alexander

  Phrases, May, Lasts

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• That is my most comfortable place: close-up beauty shots! I also love to stand and speak in front of people. I can get a bit nervous while I'm speaking, but I love to touch others with my message. TV hosting with a teleprompter is also a comfort zone. I love to nail the copy quickly with the right expression and facial expression. Delivery is key!

  Kim Alexis

  Keys, Expression, People

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• I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

  Maya Angelou

  Beautiful, Numbers, Language

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• From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.

  Francesca Annis

  England, Portuguese, Seven

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• In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.

  Karen Armstrong

  Home, Cities, Discipline

  "Prejudices about Islam will be shaken by this show" by Karen Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2012.

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