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Talking Quotes


"I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to!"


"Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone."


"I'll be helping them getting suited up, getting them in the airlock, getting the airlock prepared, and getting them out the hatch, and then talking them through these three spacewalks."


"You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!"


"In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet."


"There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it."


"So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do."


"It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book."


"Ultimately, I'm a mess. I don't mean I'm a mess, like, emotionally - I mean, I think probably everybody's a mess. David's a mess. But. I'm talking about... I'm messy."


"Think twice before you speak - and you'll find everyone talking about something else."


"I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something."


"We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring."


"Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries."


"When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person."


"When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished."


"I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished."


"Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking."


"I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear."


"If I go to a seminar and someone like you or someone like him is talking, I'm never part of the group that rushes him directly afterward. I always wait in the back corner with my head down until everyone is gone, and then I go up and do my thing."


"I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it."


"I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch."



"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."


"When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up."


"Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating."


"Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years."


"Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing."


"Modeling is more important than the talking we do."


"Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way."


"I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all."


"Everybody's just been spilling their guts all over records and talking about how hard it is to be an entertainer and how much we get hated on and what we have to go through. But I ain't really got it that bad. I'm just happy to be here."


"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost."


"Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating."
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