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I've never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.

It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry talking, and the statue, the picture, and the musical composition are poetry acting. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at his easel, or deaf Beethoven bending over his piano, inventing and producing strains, which he himself could never hope to hear.

A neighbor will stand at your door talking for 20 minutes because she doesn't have time to come in.

If you think communication is all talking, you haven't been listening.

A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

If I had kids, my kids would hate me. They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something [in my life] would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them.

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many years. It was horrifying to me how the pandemic was raging right here in this country but no one was talking about it.

But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.

I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.

Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins.

He was very modest, but once he got talking, he liked reminiscing about all the people he worked with over the years.

Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening.

Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount. Thus one must always do the opposite of that which Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for drinking wine undiluted, talking freely, and eating more often, if it is not to torment and vex the devil who made up his mind to torment and vex me.

Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.