"I'm guarded; I don't talk much."

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"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"One must steer, not talk."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me."

Barry Sheene, British Celebrity

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"This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"He who talks much cannot talk well."

Carlo Goldoni, Italian Playwright

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"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it."

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"It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music."

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"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"

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"People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them."

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"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that."

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"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."

"One must steer, not talk."

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"I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it."

"We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid."

"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him."

"Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me."

"This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants."

"He who talks much cannot talk well."

"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."

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"I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it."

"It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music."

"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"

"People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them."

"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that."

"I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time."

"I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit."

"Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter."

"I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff."

"I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass."