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"Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town."
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"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."
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"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
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"It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one."
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"I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about."
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"You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host."
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"Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter."
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"We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco."
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"Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood."
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"I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier."
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"Everyone wants to talk, you've just got to find a way to get them to talk."
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"If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece."
Music

"You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances."
Circumstance

"The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense."
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"But when you get a bit older, and I hate to use the word, quite a bit more established, people take more notice and conducting becomes a great deal easier. You don't have battles like you had before."
People

"I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids."
Time

"But you can't really know your audiences so well."
Audience

"I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers."
Want

"The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't."
Business

"I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work."
Education

"The demands are related to their questing of the best possible out of the people concerned. It's this going for the highest possible factor that I'm very concerned about."
People
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