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“My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But The Cure.”

Talking Band My Favorite Cures Favorite Bands Talking Heads

“I find standard American the hardest. It really fits in a different place in your mouth. Southern, I find the easiest. If you talk to a dialect coach and you get sort of technical, where an English person keeps their voice in their throat, a Southern person does the same, and it's got the same sort of music to talking.”

Ifs Persons Doe Different Voice Talking Fit Standards Mouths Coaches Hardest Throat Southern Different Place Dialect Dialect Coach

Author:Juno Temple

“I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.”

Trying Wells Hard Talking Issues Policy Speech Hats Bubbles Not Talking

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.”

Ifs Way Should Looks Different Song Rooms Talking Pieces Information Design Paper Unique Should Have Eight Bars Kicks Formulas Architect Blank Initials

Author:Ryan Tedder

“You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.”

Government Interest Can Do Talking

Author:Tom Tancredo

“The voice over is a hat you put on right now as opposed to worrying about going through wardrobe, and having to look a certain way. You just got to let your voice do the talking for you.”

Way Looks Certain Voice Talking Worry Right Now Hats Wardrobe Voice Over

Author:Blair Underwood

“You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard.”

Men Giving Play Talking Havens Expression Give Me Fingers Plastic Keyboards

Author:Midge Ure

“My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.”

Men Children Father Talking Bed Terror Rage My Sister

Author:Antonio Villaraigosa

“I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.”

Men Years Deals Talking Tvs Police Scary One Man Leeds Talking To Him Countdown

Author:Carol Vorderman

“People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness.”

People Thinking Kind Guy Talking Imagine Cold Truth Is Wounds Bunch Killers Hearted Seals Heartless Toughness Brainwashed Mental Toughness Cold Blooded Kind Hearted Jovial

Author:Howard E. Wasdin

“Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.”

Ifs States Political Levels Talking Practice Doctors Bases Medicine Marijuana Competent Practice Of Medicine

Author:Barney Frank

“You know, I just tend to do the scene that I'm given, really. If it really needs it, then I'll go to them and ask 'What's she talking about? What's she referring to?' But often they don't know, or they do know and they're not going to tell me, so I've learned just to work with what I'm given.”

Ifs Knows Needs Asks Given Talking Scene I've Learned Referring

Author:Sonya Walger

“In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.”

Knows Want Needs Persons Sometimes Lasts Enjoy Loses Dark Silence Talking Couple Really Great Say Anything

Author:Anton Yelchin

“People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala's voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women's rights, and peace.”

People Thinking World Should Voice Behinds Talking Rights Reaching Womens Rights Resonating Malala

Author:Malala Yousafzai

“Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then they sure weren't. Back then, folks were saying I was preaching class warfare. Now it's suddenly their campaign platform.”

People Firsts States United Talking Class United States Folks Campaigns Bunch Inequality Senate Platforms Preaching Warfare Class Warfare

Author:Barack Obama

“I've been talking about things like reversing the rise of inequality and strengthening social mobility,since before it was cool.”

Social Talking Inequality Strengthening Mobility Social Mobility

Author:Barack Obama

“People are starting to understand that the devices we carry with us reveal our location, who we're talking to, and all kinds of other information.”

People Kind Talking Information Starting All Kinds Devices Location

Author:Laura Poitras

“The ghetto is not where you live. The ghetto is inside your mind. And anyone who tells you that you can't get out of the ghettos of your own mind has no idea what they're talking about.”

Inspirational Mind Ideas Talking Buddhism No Idea Ghetto Where You Live

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you take the time to bring the light of the supra-conscious into your being, then automatically all blockages will go away. These are just ways of talking, there are no blockages, schematically I mean.”

Ifs Way Mean Light Talking Buddhism Conscious Going Away Way Of Talking Blockage

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.”

People Government Talking Growing Up Growing Privacy Bedroom Unreasonable Seizures Unreasonable Searches Unreasonable Search And Seizures

Author:Al Franken

“I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.”

Talking Study Constant Always Learning

Author:Mario Lopez

“I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.”

Ifs Feels Kind Talking Accents

Author:Melanie Lynskey

“I'd much rather be playing songs than talking to people.”

People Song Talking

Author:Ray LaMontagne

“The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution.”

Dream Consciousness Talking Evolution Lucid Dreaming Lucidity Biological Evolution

Author:Stephen LaBerge

“There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.”

People Thinking Want Years Talking Couple Exception Forty

Author:Walter Lord

“As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.”

Artist Talking Hollywood Obscure Not Talking

Author:Christian Marclay

“Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.”

People Book Sometimes Whole Film Can Do Talking

Author:Mads Mikkelsen

“I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.”

People Thinking Knows Sound Simple Talking Television Perfectly Good

Author:Paul McGann

“I think in Washington, D.C., a lot of people are talking down about business.”

People Thinking Talking Talking Down

Author:Bob McDonnell

“I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world.”

World Littles Bigs Beautiful Talking Huge Originals Train My Favorite Collections Engines Toys Steel Tanks Favorites Things Legos

Author:Callan McAuliffe

“It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking.”

Ifs Needs Giving Stories Talking Dialogue

Author:Craig McCracken

“But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.”

Ifs Knows Care Song Talking Heard Don't Care I Don't Care Yellow Old Days Submarines

Author:Don McLean

“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”

Work Education Talking Liberty Greater Ignorance Failure Ignorant Live Life Poor Richard Blockheads Being Ignorant

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“Despite his [Artie Shaw's] affectations of reclusiveness, he never tired of talking about himself, as countless long interviews reveal. I do not recall an anecdote he ever told me that was not in some way intended to convey a sense of his own superiority to everyone. . One wonders how a person of his character could produce such beauty.”

Way Persons Long Character Talking Wonder Produce Tired Despite Interviews Recalls Superiority Anecdotes

Author:Gene Lees

“Some people spend their days talking about how cool they areothers spend them doing things that make them cool”

People Talking

Author:Jinxx

“You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.”

Trying Feelings Talking Tennis About Yourself Talking About Yourself

Author:Andy Murray

“When you lose, there is a whole bunch of room for negativity and I don't feed into this stuff and I do not do any talking. I don't run my mouth.”

Whole Running Stuff Loses Rooms Talking Mouths Bunch Negativity

Author:Allen Iverson

“There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.”

Men Talking Beast Wild Beasts

Author:Jonathan Swift

“Any young, aspiring musicians out there, if music is what you want to do, if music is what you love and your passion. It doesn't take a fragrance, it's not about the tabloids, it's about you putting in the work, practicing every day, practicing your vocals, practicing your instrument, practicing songwriting. Hopefully one day you write the song the whole world wants to get down to. I promise you, if you go out there and sing and you put your heart and soul into it and you follow your dream, one day you're going to be sitting next to Ellen DeGeneres talking about how you broke records and rocked the Super Bowl.”

World Want Writing Whole Song Next Talking Records One Day Sitting Whole World Hopefully Broke Bowls Super Bowl

Author:Bruno Mars

“Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.”

Writing Years Book Talking Successful Risk Mines Senses Being Successful Not Talking

Author:Vikram Seth

“The Verse-Refrain form starts with a context before the topic that the Refrain is talking about happens.”

Happens Form Talking Verses Topics Refrain

Author:Ryan Cayabyab

“Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than I am (as his chapter in Chopin proves).”

Children Talking Prove Discovering Chapters Geek Manuscripts Audio

Author:David Hewson

“I don't reflect much, unless I'm talking to the media. I have more of a "Forward, march!" kind of attitude.”

Kind Attitude Talking Media March

Author:Kerry King

“The problem is that neither the M1 nor the M60 or indeed neither any tank, has sufficient ground pressure to drive a [bulldozer] blade into even marginally hard ground. They are not bulldozers, they are tanks, whether you are talking about the M1 or the M60's. So if you are going to dig in a tank, you need to have some kind of equipment.”

Ifs Needs Kind Hard Problem Talking Pressure Sufficient Equipment Blades Tanks Bulldozers

Author:Frank Carlucci

“Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.”

Social Animal Talking Strange Fool Tricks Pretending

Book:The Boy Who Lost Fairyland

Source: The Boy Who Lost Fairyland

“I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'”

Giving Long Stills Stories Forget Talking Giving Up Long Time Nightmare Long Time Ago Don't Give Up Comrade Emmanuel

Author:Emmanuel Jal

“Michael Harris opens the doors and gently guides you into a magic world. Once inside, you can't help but feel mesmerized, eager to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. And no wonder: a major thinker of our time is talking to you about math and so much more, like you've never heard before.”

World Feels Helping Talking Wonder Doors Magic Heard Like You Majors Math Guides Holes Our Time Thinker Rabbits Rabbit Holes Mesmerized

Author:Edward Frenkel

“If you remember one thing from talking to me, remember this: I am just a girl who makes noises - and I'm incredibly lucky that people happen to like those noises.”

People Ifs Happens Remember Girl Talking One Thing Lucky Noise Just A Girl

Author:Joss Stone

“It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.”

World Nations Water Talking Security China Terrorist Holes Ships Indian Budgets Goods World History Pirate November Sinking Impunity Punching

Book:Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery

Source: Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery

“I thought that I was going to be like this earth mother. When people would complain about being pregnant, I was like, 'What are you talking about? It's incredible! Just enjoy it.'”

People Earth Mother Enjoy Talking Incredibles Complaining Pregnant Being Pregnant

Author:Gwen Stefani

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