#talk

Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right. ↗

— Matthew Perry

#addicted #because #funny #got #i

Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Internet is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#around #end #enormous #establishment #faced

You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what he'd done the night before. I thought, 'I can do that!' I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies. ↗

— Regis Philbin

#any #before #being #bronx #buddies

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction. ↗

— Joan Didion

#directly #fiction #i #more #nonfiction

I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#clear-cut #effective #fulfilling #i #leave

I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#bad #doing #experience #five #get

Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#children #could #environment #fact #genes

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking. ↗

— Mary Pipher

#calm #children #hear #important #keep

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#i #less #means #my own #now

President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's. ↗

— Rob Portman

#about #all americans #businesses #corporations #fortune