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“For a much lauded writer, I'm not terribly self-absorbed. In social situations, which are difficult for me - I mean, this is an interview - I'm normally uncomfortable talking about myself.”

Mean Self Social Difficult Talking Situation Uncomfortable Interviews Self Absorbed

Author:James Ellroy

“We see films all the time, whether they have access to all kinds of intellectual property or artifacts, and the one thing that they don't get is story. So I think whether you're talking about a biopic or an action film or a science-fiction film that has all the CGI in the world, if you're not trying to connect with an audience, it doesn't really matter.”

“If you fill your time as a director talking about lights and technique with the crew then it's frightening for the actors to be left alone. Somebody has to keep them safe from the mess that is the machinery.”

Ifs Light Actors Left Talking Directors Safe Technique Mess Frightening Crew Machinery Left Alone

Author:Pirjo Honkasalo

“I very much like "Canada, the adults are talking" stance.”

Talking Adults Canada Stance

Author:Tucker Carlson

“Paris was incredible. Everything about it for me, from spending hours eating, drinking and talking to walking through the streets...at that time I hadn't seen that sort of political passion in the youth, and I got to experience that first hand.”

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Author:Kate Hudson

“Usually I just let my songs do the talking. As a matter of fact I have long had an aversion to celebrities endorsing politics, and in some cases even other causes. I wonder about their motives. And I have to admit when celebrities get involved in political campaigns I tend to get a little bit sarcastic about it.”

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Author:John Fogerty

“There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism. People look at me sideways now and are like, "With everything going on, the destruction of the environment, these endless wars, this capitalism that has a stranglehold on our culture and our world and you're talking about feminism still?"”

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Author:Ani DiFranco

“I believe that in games, when you're talking about pitting my wits and my brain against your wits and your brain, that simplicity of the game becomes a dominant factor.”

Believe Games I Believe Brain Talking Simplicity Wit Factors Dominant

Author:Nolan Bushnell

“I first discovered YouTube while browsing the web, and then I found people just talking into their cameras. I never even knew it was a thing you could do. William Sledd was my first YouTube obsession. He was so unapologetically himself, and just had fun talking to his audience about things that interested him. I thought - if he could do it, why couldn't I?”

People Ifs Firsts Found Fun Talking Audience Cameras Obsession Youtube Had Fun Browsing

Author:Tyler Oakley

“Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.”

Ifs Bigs Night Sides Talking Middle Drink Bird Nonsense Bottles Your Side Middle Of The Night Booze Talking Nonsense

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“I don't think people are going to come down to Texas and see every person riding in a candy car or every person sipping syrup. But, for the most part, people got a lot of the stuff right, talking about the screwed music scene.”

People Thinking Persons Stuff Talking Car Scene Texas Riding Candy Syrup Sipping

Author:Chamillionaire

“I think that one of the many advantages of death accruing over a long period of time is that you do have time to meet a lot of other people who are going through similar situations and one of the great delights of our life actually was sitting around in labs waiting for the results of tests and talking to other people who were waiting to find out whether their cancer numbers were going in the right direction or not.”

People Thinking Long Waiting Results Numbers Talking Situation Our Lives Periods Sitting Advantage Tests Cancer Delight Labs Right Direction Sitting Around Long Periods Of Time

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“I had tried, as I thought as a nun, to open myself to God and God seemed totally uninterested in me. The heavens remained closed and opaque. I now realize, of course, that I had a very, very inadequate idea of God. I was expecting clouds to part, a little sort of whisper in my ear, and of course, that's not what God is. God is not another being; we are talking about something much more profound.”

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Author:Karen Armstrong

“Every single one of the major world faiths, whether we're talking about Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Darwinism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have all come to the conclusion that what holds us back from our better self is ego, selfishness, greed, unkindness, hatred. And it all springs from a sense of thwarted ego.”

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Author:Karen Armstrong

“There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that.Yes, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through which I see the world is the lens that I grew up with. I am the product of a working class upbringing.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did period all over his sofa, then there's no reason not to tell that anecdote in the middle of a dinner party.”

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Author:Caitlin Moran

“People don't understand how hard it is to get recognized, how hard it is to get people to read your books. How hard it is to get people to even to understand what they're reading when they're talking to you about their books.”

People Book Hard Reading Talking

Author:Walter Mosley

“The love of writing comes at a very early age. For me, for instance, comic books so affected me. And a lot of people who come up to me and start talking about writing, when I start talking to them about the "Fantastic Four," they look at me aghast. They say, "'The Fantastic Four?' That's not literature." I say, "Yeah, but it was when I was 11 years old." This was literature.”

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Author:Walter Mosley

“If I learned to play guitar it was so that I would have something to sing to, if I learned to write a song it was so that I would have something to sing. So the gut feeling you're talking about comes from singing and communicating the lyrics and what it is that we feel.”

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Author:Brandi Carlile

“When we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like they’re talking to us. When I was figuring out how to perform solo, I wanted to move back and forth between bass riffs, melody, and harmony, so I often used sounds instead of — or alongside — the words of a song. I found that if I sang a line using the consonants, vowels, shadings, and inflection we recognize as human language sounds, people responded as if I were talking to them.”

“It was fantastic to be able to have my kids on set. Dash, my eldest son, who’s not quite five, was into knights and his godmother had given him a plastic Marks & Spencer knights’ outfit and [first assistant director] Tommy Gormley said that he could stand to protect me during the scene where Clive [Owen] is talking about the immensity of sitting on the throne. I’m actually looking through an archway at my son standing in his knights’ costume protecting me!”

“I did 40 voices for Chris Wedge, the director of the first film, before coming up with the version we used. He was hard to please, I don't know why. I gave him really slow talking voices. then I thought perhaps Sid could be an Indian sounding sloth. To find out more about my character, I watched footage of sloths. I discovered that the food they store in their pouches rots and ferments and half the time they're drunk.”

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Author:John Leguizamo

“I walked around my apartment with food in my mouth asking myself: "How do I come up with this voice?" Then I found the voice. I called the director and said on the phone: "Guess who you're talking to Chris? Sid, that's right Sid!" And that's how I came up with the voice. That's a true story.”

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Author:John Leguizamo

“Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.”

Ends Used Talking End Times Alarms

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.”

Existence Talking Adults

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“...By a 'silly' theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but which only an inmate of a lunatic asylum would think of carrying into daily life. ... It must not be supposed that the men who maintain these theories and beliefs are 'silly' people. Only very acute and learned men could have thought of anything so odd or defended anything so preposterous against the continual protests of common sense.”

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Author:C. D. Broad

“Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Wells I Can Talking Reader Conversation

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.”

People Way Talking Conversation

Author:Brendan Behan

“I find it funny that people who didn't think there was any inflation in the pipeline are now talking about stagflation. This is nothing like the 1970's, which was a pretty dismal period and not just because of polyester and disco.”

People Thinking Talking Periods Inflation Disco Pipeline

Author:Barry Ritholtz

“At a time when everybody in our culture is talking about tolerance, it seems that tolerance has the highest premium of any response - "If we just tolerate one another..." But my feeling is: Who wants to be tolerated? People don't want to be tolerated; they want to be loved.”

People Ifs Want Feelings Seems Culture Talking Highest Response Tolerance Tolerate Premium

Author:Derek Webb

“I've worked hard and I deserve everything I have. I never thought I'd have so much money. I just wanted to be financially stable and it embarrasses me and I don't feel comfortable talking or thinking about it. I don't know exactly how much I have but I don't buy much.”

Thinking Knows Feels Hard Wanted Talking Comfortable Deserve Stable

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“What if we actually demonstrated God's love for the world instead of just talking about it?”

Ifs World Talking What If God's Love

Author:Richard Stearns

“Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.”

Mistake Talking Commit Same Mistakes

Book:Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity

Source: Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity

“I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.”

Talking Listening Save Me

Author:David Hockney

“Diplomacy should always be our first option. Most politicians only talk, not fight. I’ve fought; talking is far better than fighting.”

Should Firsts Fighting Talking Politician Diplomacy

Author:Seth Moulton

“When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.”

Knows President Talking Like You Skills

Author:William J. Clinton

“Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves.”

Mean Important Stories Problem Talking Research Communicate Decades Happy Family

Author:Bruce Feiler

“The spirit of community will be revived as we succeed in devising ways to reinvolve people in solving the perplexing problems they see about them, not just in talking about them, and certainly not in petitioning government to solve them.”

People Way Problem Government Spirit Community Talking Succeed Solve Devising

Author:Richard Cornuelle

“My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.”

People Knows Talking Type Caring Not Caring

Author:John Hodgman

“Those who can't do, teach. And, as Woody Allen says, those who can't teach, teach gym. And, as I say, those who can't teach gym become experts. That's who we look to for answers these days-the people telling you how to make your marriage work. Men telling women how to raise their self-esteem. The only thing that cures everything is talking to people who have the same problem you do. The rest is just a moneymaking bullshit scheme that some asshole is getting rich on.”

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Author:Roseanne Barr

“The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.”

Feels Talking Ease Mediocrity

Book:The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

“People are not even going to have time to listen to radio in their cars because they are going to be talking on their phones or twittering, or BBM'ing. So I feel like the only time people are going to hear music is when your phone rings, so that's the whole market I'm going after.”

People Feels Whole Talking Car Music Is Phones Radio Rings Only Time

Author:Spencer Pratt

“The strangest thing is at tea breaks, or coffee breaks or lunch, you forget you're a zombie. And you're talking about politics to somebody at the table and you forget that you have a bullet hole in your forehead.”

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Author:Billy Connolly

“I do feel that I'm talking to someone who's in a totally different place from where I was when I started modeling. I was fortunate enough to have the wonderful designers and amazing photographers around me, and editors that I knew, and if I wanted to ask a question, I asked them. So that gap has broadened a bit.”

Ifs Feels Different Enough Wanted Asks Bits Talking Wonderful Photographer Fortunate Designer Gaps Editors Modeling Different Place Talking To Someone

Author:Naomi Campbell

“On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."”

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Author:David Hockney

“I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium. They're printing the comics so small that most strips are just talking heads, and if you look back at the glory days of comic strips, you can see that they were showcases for some of the best pop art ever to come out.”

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Author:Matt Groening

“I always wanted to kind of make the listener feel like it was them that I was talking about, or to the point that I could say the rhyme, and feel like it's them saying it.”

Feels Kind Wanted Talking Listeners Rhyme

Author:Rakim

“The roughest thing was learning the realities of the world at such a young age. I was 10 or 11, going to church, hearing the adults standing on the podium talking about world affairs, about history, about war, and how America was founded.”

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Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book, instead of just talking about it all the time.”

Ifs Years Book Ends Talking Pages

Author:Jackie Collins

“Working on camera is a different ballgame in the sense that it's far more intimate work, but the basics and the foundations of being able to create something that isn't necessarily your own instincts - is a character that you have inside your head - whether you're talking about television or film or theater, that still has to be the grounding work.”

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Author:Rose Leslie

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