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"A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much."
Irwin Shaw
"A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much."
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"I'm not sure we think it's a win to talk about what you're taking out."
Rick Wagoner
"I'm not sure we think it's a win to talk about what you're taking out."
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"There are a million things I can think of that I would I want to do. Reporting like you, would be one. A talk show host maybe, also. I want to do a lot."
Justin Guarini
"There are a million things I can think of that I would I want to do. Reporting like you, would be one. A talk show host maybe, also. I want to do a lot."
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"He who talks much cannot talk well."
Carlo Goldoni
"He who talks much cannot talk well."
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"Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking."
Ambrose Bierce
"Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking."
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"Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?"
Edgar Bergen
"Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?"
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"I just talk, and I guess some of my views came out."
Sandy Duncan
"I just talk, and I guess some of my views came out."
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"I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox."
Jonathan Bennett
"I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox."
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"It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about."
Kin Hubbard
"It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about."
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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
"This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants."
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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
"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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"What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself."
Bob Kane
"What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself."
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"It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow."
Anne Heche
"It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow."
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"They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries."
Patricia Ireland
"They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries."
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"Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win."
Lincoln Chafee
"Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win."
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"Tombstones don't talk back."
Leland Chapman
"Tombstones don't talk back."
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"If I can talk, I can sing."
John Raitt
"If I can talk, I can sing."
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"I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk."
Leslie Fiedler
"I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk."
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"You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket."
Bill Cartwright
"You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket."
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"My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back."
Francis Picabia
"My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back."
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"We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?"
Walid Jumblatt
"We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?"
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"Writers write. Dreamers talk about it."
Jerry B. Jenkins
"Writers write. Dreamers talk about it."
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"You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist."
Studs Terkel
"You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist."
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"Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are."
Jeff Hawkins
"Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are."
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"I'd rather you didn't talk, but it's up to you."
Graham Kennedy
"I'd rather you didn't talk, but it's up to you."
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"Tennis lets you talk while you're playing."
Jane Kaczmarek
"Tennis lets you talk while you're playing."
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"The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself."
Gavin Rossdale
"The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself."
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"Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood."
Moliere
"Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood."
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"I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say."
Radha Mitchell
"I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say."
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"The less you talk, the more you're listened to."
Abigail Van Buren
"The less you talk, the more you're listened to."
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"I'll let the racket do the talking."
John McEnroe
"I'll let the racket do the talking."
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"You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork."
Joe Mantegna
"You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork."
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"If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things."
Byron Dorgan
"If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things."
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"If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again,'"
Ron Suskind
"If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again,'"
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"I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about."
Mark Victor Hansen
"I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about."
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"I'm from the streets of New York. I know what tough talk sounds like."
Aries Spears
"I'm from the streets of New York. I know what tough talk sounds like."
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"Always do something that requires you and your date to talk."
Steven Hill
"Always do something that requires you and your date to talk."
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"Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?"
Art Buchwald
"Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?"
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"When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about."
Philip Seymour Hoffman
"When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about."
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"I talk by playing, not by words."
Bernie Worrell
"I talk by playing, not by words."
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"I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department."
Nancy Reagan
"I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department."
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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."
Jerzy Kosinski
"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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"They talk most who have the least to say."
Matthew Prior
"They talk most who have the least to say."
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"We're developing things, but I don't know what we'll go with for the show, so I don't like to talk about it."
Marc Jacobs
"We're developing things, but I don't know what we'll go with for the show, so I don't like to talk about it."
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"Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it."
Shel Silverstein
"Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it."
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"I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier."
Howard Nemerov
"I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier."
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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."
Carter Burwell
"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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"Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them."
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"The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other."
John Kricfalusi
"The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other."
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"I'll talk to myself out loud a lot."
Mira Sorvino
"I'll talk to myself out loud a lot."
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