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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
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Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
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Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking.
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Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
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Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.
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Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
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When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.
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You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
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'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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A few weeks ago, I was at the gym, talking to a friend about politics. Overhearing the conversation, a young man - maybe 25 years old - interrupted to say, 'Obama? He hasn't done a single thing!'
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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A playwright is the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like I'm sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But it's not supposed to be that way.
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