Talking Quotes - Page 19

• I love talking about the Kennedy assassination. The reason I do is because I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it.

  Bill Hicks

  Lying, Government, Long

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• Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mistake, Writing

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• You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.

  Brenda Ueland

  Writing, People, Ends

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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• You can talk about things indirectly, but if you want to talk how people really talk, you have to talk R-rated. I mean I've got three incredibly intelligent daughters, but when you get mad, you get mad and you talk like people talk. When a normal 17-year-old girl storms out of the house or 15-year-old boy is mad at his mom or dad, they're not talking the way people talk on TV. Unless it's cable.

  Bob Saget

  Girl, Mom, Daughter

  "The R-rated comedy makes its comeback". The Associated Press, www.today.com. September 01, 2005.

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• I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories

  Lou Reed

  Memories, Book, Past

  Song: Talking Book

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• For me, the monologue was the favorite thing I had done in radio. It was based on writing, but in the end it was radio, it was standing up and leaning forward into the dark and talking, letting words come out of you.

  Garrison Keillor

  Writing, Dark, Done

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• I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.

  Pablo Neruda

  Heart, World, Quiet

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.873, Macmillan

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• The weirdest time is when I'm having to explain myself all day to journalists, and then I don't perform, so there's no release, just a lot of self-consciousness. Then what do you do with that at the end of the day? How do you release your brain from talking about yourself all day?

  Andrew Bird

  Self, Brain, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Bond was so big and mighty in my career, and it is the gift that just keeps giving. I wouldn't be here today talking about "The November Man" if it hadn't been for James Bond. So, there was a desire, a want, and a need to make this film, "The November Man." I loved the title. It has a sensuality and a mystique to it.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Men, Careers, Giving

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• We're talking about the Olympics. We're talking about trying to win the gold medal. All of these things can be overwhelming. But regardless of whether I win a gold medal or never compete again, I just have to trust that God has a plan for my life and I'm called to be His representative through the sport and outside of the sport.

  Elana Meyers

  Sports, Winning, Trying

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts.

  Martin Amis

  Phones, People, Want

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• In fact, if you look at people within our government, they seem to be quite enthusiastically fighting the war against their own people at the behest of the United States. So it doesn't seem to me that the strong way to oppose this is by joining politics at all, but just to keep speaking and to keep talking about it.

  Fatima Bhutto

  Strong, War, Fighting

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• We need that same mentality in philanthropy, trying things, taking risks, recognizing the first try, maybe the second try, maybe the third try won't work. But if you stay at it and you're learning, you're talking to others, and you're learning together, eventually you'll break through and see the kind of impact you were hoping for.

  Steve Case

  Impact, Break Through, Risk

  "The Giving Pledge: A new club for billionaires". "The Giving Pledge" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. November 17, 2013.

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• Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.

  Sharleen Spiteri

  People, Records, Songwriters

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The White Queen in many ways it is representative of the sort of drama that I'm talking about. The books by Philippa Gregory were best sellers and they specifically told the story of history from the point of view of women.

  Colin Callender

  Queens, Drama, Book

  Source: deadline.com

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• I did a lot of talking - not as much background talking as a lot of people because I've never been someone who is too afraid of saying what I feel. I just don't see any reason to.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  People, Reason, Backgrounds

  Source: deadline.com

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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