#speaking

What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation. ↗

— Richard Russo

#comes #dialogue #dictation #down #easiest

A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#being #broadly #brought #camp #culture

I never found it frustrating not speaking. ↗

— David Selby

#frustrating #i #never #speaking

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#english-speaking #films #i #important #love

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#claiming #distrusted #easier #fiction #get

Kaneria has competed in more than 50 Test series [sic] for Pakistan during his career. ↗

— BBC

#cricket #danish-kaneria #misspeaking #pakistan-national-cricket-team #age

Performers should realize they not only have to prepare themselves for concert purposes as far as memorizing their programs goes, but for the business of just walking out before the people …. It is important to play before an imaginary audience too. Before I play in public I very often play a program three or four times as though I were seated before a actual audience. ↗

— Leonard Rose

#nervousness #performing #public-speaking #business

Again, I'm used to speaking to a lot of people; I have a lot of friends and family, and I perform music and speak in front of a lot of crowds. So I share with people already a lot in my life. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#already #crowds #family #friends #friends and family

I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#could #desires #dimensions #experiences #i

Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#after #am #come #commitments #engagements