"Maybe this is the secret to talking to boys--maybe you just have to be angry all the time."
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"Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?' 'Sometimes.' 'So why don't you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, you know.' But this is my voice. How would you be able to tell when I was talking?"
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"Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative."
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"Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind."
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"I have the ordinary experience of having the blender bottom come off in my room upstairs. I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences. What's important is to be able to see yourself, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are."
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"I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences."
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"I appeal to the Youth and those on the ground: start talking to each other across divisions of race and political organizations."
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"Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?"
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"There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person."
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"Obviously I love doing newsmaker interviews, and if I can contribute in any way to that, I would love to. I love reporting, getting out in the field and talking to people about various issues."
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"Some suggested over the weekend that it is wrong to expect Elian Gonzalez to live in a place that tolerates no dissent or freedom of political expression. They were talking about Miami."
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"If people want to talk about anything I do, they can give it any name they want. As long as they're talking about it, I think it's great."
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"He's not rewarding us by talking to us. He's talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity."
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"All of us... when we think we are talking most intimately to someone else, are actually addressing an image we have of the person to whom we believe we speak."
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"Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C."
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"Sometimes I think with the telephone that if I concentrate enough I could pour myself into it and I'd be turned into a mist and I would rematerialize in the room of the person I'm talking to. Is that too odd for you?"
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"I'm very quiet. I can go a whole week without talking, so doing interviews is really awkward for me!"
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"But why should you be interested in me?" Good question. I can’t explain it myself right this moment. But maybe – just maybe – if we start getting together and talking, after a while something like Francis Lai’s soundtrack music will start playing in the background, and a whole slew of concrete reasons why I’m interested in you will line up out of nowhere. With luck, it might even snow for us."
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"You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?" "It's a distance that can't be measured." "Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's."
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"I’m not good at talking,” Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words come out. Wrong or sometimes completely backward. I try to go back and correct it, but things get even more complicated and confused, so that I don’t even remember what I started to say in the first place. Like I was split into two or something, one half chasing the other. And there’s this big pillar in the middle and they go chasing each other around and around it. The other me always latches onto the right word and this me absolutely never catches up"
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