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		I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
	
	  Alistair Cooke Alistair Cooke
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		After owning books, almost the next best thing is talking about them.
	
	  Charles Nodier Charles Nodier
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		I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted "Mary had a little lamb," etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a phonograph.
	
	  Thomas A. Edison Thomas A. Edison
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		At the piano, I'm able to communicate in a way that is very intimate and direct. My approach at music is a bit like talking to a friend. You don't have to be very complicated when you speak. If you say what's in your heart, it's usually very simple.
	
	  David Lanz David Lanz
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		It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.
	
	  Gabrielle Zevin Gabrielle Zevin
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		Well I am grooming him, he has a boxing trainer that knows what he is talking about, and once he has that he is able to put everything together and he listens, and when somebody listens they are able to accomplish anything.
	
	  Michael Moorer Michael Moorer
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		Girls are always talking about electricity in their romance, but none are too happy to actually be electrocuted, apparently. Bloody confusing, is what it is.
	
	  Tahereh Mafi Tahereh Mafi
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		When I was about 19, my stepmother said - because this was back in the 80s - that I had Robert Wagners pompadour. I said, What are you talking about? You mean the guy from Hart to Hart?
	
	  Michael Weatherly Michael Weatherly
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		I can tell from the tone of his voice and the thought processes in getting to where he's at that there's no point in talking to him further. He wanted to make that decision independent of all other factors and we respect that. [on Damien Martyn retiring
	
	  Ian Chappell Ian Chappell
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		On the street. I was talking to you and you found something better to do.
	
	  Pete Yorn Pete Yorn
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		Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt.
	
	  J. C. Watts J. C. Watts
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		So far in facing this huge [peak oil] challenge, our political/economic system seems unable to cope with reality. We are forced to carry on living in an illusion that we have so much time to adapt to post-oil that we don't even need to be talking or thinking much about what a world without plentiful oil would look like. Reality has become too dangerous.
	
	  Madeleine Bunting Madeleine Bunting