Talking Quotes - Page 24

• It's all so personal, isn't it? It's hard to talk about work without talking about things that are personal. Work is personal. I don't want to talk about my personal life, but it's on my mind, and it's in my work.

  Michelle Williams

  Mind, Want, Hard

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whenever you talk about a Mike Shanahan offense, you're always going to be talking about his offense.

  John Madden

  Offense, Mike

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• President Bush had an opportunity tonight to say, 'Look ... things aren't going very well in Iraq and we did make some miscalculations and misjudgments there,' but he is so stubbornly arrogant - he just sticks with that same formula that he has in talking about the war on Iraq that just defies the reality that we all see on the ground.

  Mike McCurry

  War, Opportunity, Reality

  "Debating the first debate" by Dan Lothian, Dana Bash, John King, Candy Crowley Richard Shumate and Ed Payne, edition.cnn.com. October 3, 2004.

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• I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is a whole different reality.

  Richard Price

  Reality, Here And There, Different

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• Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now!

  Paul Goodman

  Dream, Inspiration, Your Side

  "Commonist Tendencies: Mutual Aid Beyond Communism". Book by Jeff Shantz, July 23, 2013.

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• You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.

  Alan Ball

  Beauty, Wisdom, Ideas

  Alan Ball, Sam Mendes (1999). “American Beauty: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

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• People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!

  Sergei Bubka

  People, World, Language

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• In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It’s not! If I’m the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.

  Bill Johnson

  Humility, Pride, Thinking

  Bill Johnson (2005). “When Heaven Invades Earth”, p.147, Destiny Image Publishers

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• When you voice your disagreement, begin by talking about what you have in common with the person you are arguing with. Too often we rush to judgment, race to argue, and overlook all the common ground we share.

  Matthew Kelly

  Race, Voice, Arguing

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness”, p.160, BookBaby

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• Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking!

  James Brown

  Hair, Sometimes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

  Nigel Short

  Serious, Problem

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• One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

  Robert Morgan

  Powerful, Use, Way

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• Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

  James Thurber

  Memories, Men, Order

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.232, Library of America

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• I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.

  Bob Edwards

  Elements, Excited, Microphones

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• There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.

  James Caan

  Acting, Actors, Boring

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.

  Robert Morgan

  Real, Voice, Sound

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• The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.

  Jon Porter

  Law, People, Community

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• Although once when we were talking after class, Herr Silverman told me that when someone rises up and holds himself to a higher standard, even when doing so benefits others, average people resent it, mostly because they're not strong enough to do the same.

  Matthew Quick

  Strong, Average, Class

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• The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages, talking about their weeks in the hospital or the way meat has gone up, or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels.

  Joseph Mitchell

  Baby, Loneliness, Men

  Joseph Mitchell (2010). “My Ears Are Bent”, p.11, Vintage

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• my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must touch and be touched, the tongue on flesh, and that touch is the result of the monologues, the idea, the philosophies which led to faith; but in the instant of the touch there is no place for thinking, for talking; the silent touch affirms all that, and goes deeper: it affirms the mysteries of love and mortality.

  Andre Dubus

  Philosophy, Thinking, Simple

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• I think I have always wanted to tell stories. My mother was the real catalyst. I kept talking about it and so she pulled out a story I wrote (and illustrated) back in elementary school. She used that as proof that I should be writing and had been doing so unconsciously for years.

  Kim Smith

  Mother, Real, Writing

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• Dialogue saves me. I love writing the conversations between my paper people. For some reason, that is the easiest thing for me. It's like I am a transcriptionist for the voices in my head. I can hear them talking (mentally) and have a gift for getting it on the page.

  Kim Smith

  Writing, Voice, People

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• I think any actor who talks in beatings-up is just talking himself up. I tend to not bring them up.

  Sam Worthington

  Thinking, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

  Patti Smith

  Father, Trying, Hours

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Certainly, from where I stand, I'm not a specialist in wildly different walks and voices. But I find as much variation and nuance as what satisfies me in what I do. So, I don't find this particularly different. He has his own peculiarities. You're probably talking about a cluster of Englishmen in suits but I've done quite a big cluster of guys not in suits as well, which I've occupied myself with. So, I don't find that this is the one that stands out.

  Colin Firth

  Voice, Guy, Different

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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