Talking Quotes - Page 18

• I think a lot of concern of the people in the north is that one hears constant reports in talking to them is about militarisation and the presence of the army, the entry of the army into civic life, into the economy, the lack of a political settlement.

  Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

  Army, Thinking, People

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Multiculturalism is only in the West. We are absorbing a large number of Muslims in the west and at the same time the Christians and the Jews and other minorities are fleeing the Middle East, churches are being burnt, nobody is talking about it. Where are the religious freedom of the minorities.

  Mark Durie

  Christian, Religious, Numbers

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Some of the key components, we wanted it to be so far into the future that you weren't talking about our time. I was joking that the AMC cinematic universe is after the zombie apocalypse by hundreds and hundreds of years.

  Alfred Gough

  Keys, Years, Zombie

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Also, having grown up in England, you walk around London, you're passing relics that are a thousand years old - the wall of London is a thousand years old. You don't talk about it, it's part of your everyday life. The idea that people are in these environments and talking about the past and what happened, it's irrelevant. It's all about living and in this world it was about surviving.

  Miles Millar

  Wall, Past, Years

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Interesting thing that is happening in American society is that people are starting to talk about money. I don't know how you feel about this, but for a long time, nobody was talking about money. It was a secret. And it's kind of very interesting because we do lots of stuff to portray to people about how much money we have, the clothes we wear and the cars we have and the house - they all kind of depict to other people, signal how much money we make, but we don't talk about it specifically.

  Dan Ariely

  Clothes, Long, People

  The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• When I was lucky enough to be successful, I distanced myself completely from the whole thing of units and selling copies. I just wanted to keep everyone who comes to see me happy. I spend so much time after my shows talking to people who come from all over the world to see me. I'll go out and sign a picture and have a chat.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Successful, People, Lucky

  Source: collider.com

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• By just passing through things, I continue to slightly limit myself. I want the jobs that don't say that much. I'm often the stepping stone or the conduit from one thing to another. I love the idea of existing in a film and growing and having bigger arcs, and being in scenes where you're just being, as opposed to talking. That' one of my ambitions, lying ahead.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Jobs, Lying, Ambition

  Source: collider.com

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• Spend a day talking only in rhyme.

  David Salle

  Rhyme

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• What you have felt and thought will by itself invent a new style, so that when people talk about style they are always a little astonished at the newness of it, because they think that it is only style that they are talking about, when what they are talking about is the attempt to express a new idea with such force that it will have the originality of the thought.It is an awfully lonesome business, and, as you know, I never wanted you to go into it, but if you are going into it at all, I want you to go into it knowing the sort of things that took me years to learn.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.512, Simon and Schuster

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• Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.

  Willa Cather

  Thinking, People, Goes On

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking about a phantasmagoric never-never land of your own? Because, I take it, one of the main things the author wants to say is that the real life of men is of that mythical and heroic quality.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Men, Land

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

  Blaise Pascal

  Imagination, Soul, Littles

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Moving, Writing, Together

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• Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Cracks, Structure

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.111, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I like a lot of talk in a book and I don't like to have nobody tell me what the guy that's talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, Guy, Looks

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.38, Penguin

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• Mother Russia is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop.

  Boris Pasternak

  Mother, Moving, Russia

  Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1965). “The Poems of Dr. Zhivago”, p.137, Manchester University Press

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• The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.

  Dorothy Day

  Writing, Important

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• As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.

  Kabir

  Distance, Long, Mind

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• Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Conviction, Resorts

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

  William Safire

  Professors, Novel

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• I learned early that you'd better know what you're talking about. You'd better realize that certain issues are going to be so hot - no matter what reason, what logic you apply to it - you're going to be met with an opposition just because their viewpoint is different, and there's no way they're going to accept your reasoning. Furthermore, they're going to attack you because you will be portrayed as not being credible: "You're an actor. What do you know?"

  Robert Redford

  Issues, Hot, Different

  Interview with Sean P. Means, www.sltrib.com. December 02, 2005.

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• I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood. . . . I'm gonna write him a letter. Hollywood wasn't built on filth and dirt - it was built on talent.

  Mickey Rooney

  Writing, Sunday, Devil

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• You need to understand this.  We did not think we owned the land.  The land was part of us.  We didn't even know about owning the land.  It is like talking about owning your grandmother - you can't own your grandmother.  She just is your grandmother.  Why would you talk about owning her?

  Kent Nerburn

  Grandmother, Thinking, Land

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder”, p.46, New World Library

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• Never say "Au revoir" unless you have been talking French, or are speaking to a French person.

  Emily Post

  Persons, Has Beens

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm often asked why I travel around the country talking politics. Is it for humanitarian reasons, community spirit, or is it for the money, the limousines or the girls? The answers are: no, no, yes yes yes!

  Pat Paulsen

  Girl, Country, Talking Politics

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