#talk

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction. ↗

— Joan Didion

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I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#clear-cut #effective #fulfilling #i #leave

I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#bad #doing #experience #five #get

Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking. ↗

— Mary Pipher

#calm #children #hear #important #keep

Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#because #fat #give #handle #how

Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#feeling #find #friends #happening #i

I'm a staunch believer that we are in an earth cycle. There's no question the planet is changing, and the fact that the Mayans had an end date and their history talks of change, I find that fascinating. ↗

— George Noory

#change #changing #cycle #date #earth

It's so critical for people frustrated with the economy, with changing tides in government, who aren't able to hear their voices, questions or their ills being talked about, to have a place for discussing what others won't. ↗

— George Noory

#about #being #changing #critical #discussing

It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered. ↗

— Denis Norden

#children #different #everything #find #holidays