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IAN CRAWFORD We still like the home builders and we like the bubble talk too, ... The second we stop hearing abou... JOHN BUCKINGHAM I'll talk all this craziness in my music, but when I have your attention, and you're listeni... REMY MA When we talk about the healthcare crisis in America we've got to also be talking about the denta... BERNIE SANDERS When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a... BRENT M. JONES We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves. WILLIAM HAZLITT It was like, okay, he's back. Now we can concentrate on other things. We can talk about who we're go... AHMAN GREEN Everybody knows about Rutgers, would talk about them and would ask us if we were going. JOE ANDRO Scorsese would talk to me about this movie 'The Heiress' with Olivia de Havilland. We were t... WINONA RYDER When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. Thats something I value. Fa... 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KURT ANDERSEN It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything. EDDIE MURRAY You will close your eyes. And listen carefully . . . . You must learn to listen carefully when peopl... CéLESTE ALBARET Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking ab... ANNE SEXTON I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to ... WYNTON MARSALIS Certainly when we talk about beach parking, when we talk about accessibility to the beach, improving... PENNY TAYLOR They know what's at stake. They know what we're all about, so we never have to talk about the winnin... ALLEN ROSSI Before I took the job, we talked about going younger this year. We didn't talk to what degree. But I... JOE GIRARDI I don't know about most guys. I can stay sharp even though I get a few days off like this. I'll see ... BOBBY JENKS When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. LAUREN BACALL It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only th... ABEL FERRARA But as a result of that, there was, once the show ended, there was this talk for sort of four, five ... WILL ARNETT We need to talk. All of us About what we're going to do now." "I was going to watch Project Run... CASSANDRA CLARE When we talk about ourselves, about others, or simply about things, we want- it could be said – to... PASCAL MERCIER When I think about eighteen months ago when this all began and how far we've come, I can't wait to s... NICOLE SCHERZINGER Sometimes you need this. It's tough, but now we can stop talking about 13-0 and start talking about ... CARNELL WILLIAMS Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you kno... LAUREN OLIVER It's something we still talk about, but it's not the same dark cloud that it was a year ago. I think... ANN CURTIS We'll have more to talk about in a couple of weeks, really. At this point it's all conjecture, but i... DAN ROHRS When you talk about peace through strength, what you're talking about is the concept of deterren... CHRIS GIBSON We were all really surprised. It's a really hard time for all of us right now and I try not to talk ... ASHLEY HENDERSON Too often when we talk about racial or economic justice, we white people do not see ourselves in the... BETSY HODGES I do envision championship basketball and when you talk about championship basketball, you talk abou... ISIAH THOMAS That's one thing we talk about, talk about, and talk about -- keeping your composure. Especially in ... DAVID HARRIS The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we... CAROLYN WELLS In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... Just talking about (the discounts), it was clear that if we were going to come with an employee pric... MIKE ABERLICH A joke is basically and normally a light-hearted talk about the sensible things we ought to feel and... ANUJ SOMANY We're really excited about this season everyone's been talking about it for a long time. Now it's he... BEN GYURE We can use electronic instruments like synthesizers and sequencers and things like that. I'm not sur... CHRIS FRANTZ When we meet our Maker, ... we will proudly stand and talk about what we -- together -- did. JAY NIXON The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about th... NEWT GINGRICH Talk about a no-name group. I know that phrase has been coined before, but we are kind of that group... MIKE HOLMGREN Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents... MICHELLE OBAMA We feel good about what [Johnson] is doing now, that he didn't do in the spring. He's been accurate,... HOUSTON NUTT Every time this happens, you get these questions. We don't really talk about the streak. I couldn't ... KATASHA BROWN The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just drea... PAUL BETTANY Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind. DEBORAH KERR In 2014, having children is complicated and daunting and fraught - as much as it's always been, ... RACHEL SKLAR When I talk to kids about this place, I spend all my time talking about what a great place this is, ... HEATH SCHROYER Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?' 'Sometimes.' 'So why don't you do so... LAUREN OLIVER When we talk about how improvisation works, we explain that it's like a pizza. Everyone gets to put ... MONIKA HERZIG We like to catch up on what's going on. We talk about what's going on in town and how many times Aud... DIANE GREEN When you talk about *NSYNC or Backstreet Boys - we were like the New Kids, and New Kids were like th... JC CHASEZ We walk the walk and not just talk the talk. On the other side they talk about women, but when the o... DERRICK SMITH I guess the bottom line of the tapes is -- I don't know whether I'm typical -- they make me itch. Th... JOSEPH LIEBERMAN I know just about every (Carver) player and I like them all. This wasn't necessarily personal. We ju... JAMARR SANDERS We talk about freedom of speech but when we get, we cry for censorship. YASMEEN KHAN Many times when we are talking about displacement, we talk about it within the frame of gentrificati... MATTHEW DESMOND Originally, we were going to set up a cappuccino bar in the showroom, but we've been so busy, ... We... LIZ TAYLOR We don't like to talk about funds, but it's there. 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RAYMOND HOLLIWELL What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of ... RAYMOND CHANDLER Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were d... RAYMOND CHANDLER It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a... RAYMOND CHANDLER Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. ... RAYMOND CHANDLER Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writ... RAYMOND CHANDLER God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible ... RAYMOND HOLLIWELL The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and a... RAYMOND CHANDLER The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can m... RAYMOND CHANDLER A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. RAYMOND CHANDLER She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. RAYMOND CHANDLER In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobod... RAYMOND CHANDLER So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delive... RAYMOND CHANDLER Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the highe... RAYMOND CHANDLER The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas. RAYMOND CHANDLER The most prepared are the most dedicated. RAYMOND BERRY The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the... RAYMOND CHANDLER If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been an... RAYMOND CHANDLER Its idea of production value is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer ... RAYMOND CHANDLER Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artis... RAYMOND CHANDLER That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He... RAYMOND CHANDLER They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have devel... RAYMOND CHANDLER The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangli... RAYMOND CHANDLER The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake... RAYMOND CHANDLER Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid..... RAYMOND CHANDLER There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are peop... RAYMOND CHANDLER It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. Th... RAYMOND CHANDLER I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the... RAYMOND CHANDLER The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endle... RAYMOND CHANDLER The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more ... RAYMOND CHANDLER The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called signi... RAYMOND CHANDLER I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical ... RAYMOND CHANDLER Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese a... RAYMOND CHANDLER He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. RAYMOND CHANDLER Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After t... RAYMOND CHANDLER It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent a... RAYMOND CHANDLER