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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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"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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"Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?"

Edgar Bergen, American Actor

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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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"Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?"

Black Kettle, American Leader

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"I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department."

Nancy Reagan, American First Lady

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"I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about."

Truman Capote, American Novelist

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"I just talk, and I guess some of my views came out."

Sandy Duncan, American Musician

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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."

Peter Maxwell Davies, English Composer

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"They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think."

Matthew Prior, English Poet

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"But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes."

Process

"And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things."

Family

"Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished."

Anger

"In this case we're building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure."

Time

"What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become."

Art

"And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions."

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"If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting."

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"And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone."

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"If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses."

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"I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity."

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