“Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.”
Keith Richards (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
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“Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.”
Keith Richards (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
“You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.”
P. L. Travers (1899–1996) Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist
As quoted by Valerie Lawson, in an interview: "The Mystic Life of P.L. Travers" (7 May 2003) http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/ark/stories/s844311.htm
“But two or three days later I was talking about the whole thing in the past tense.”
Ram Dass book Be Here Now
Be Here Now (1971)
Context: I thought at that moment, "Wow, I've got it made. I'm just a new beautiful being — I'm just an inner self — all I'll ever need to do is look inside and I'll know what to do and I can always trust it, and here I'll be forever."
But two or three days later I was talking about the whole thing in the past tense. I was talking about how I "experienced" this thing, because I was back being that anxiety-neurotic, in a slightly milder form, but still, my old personality was sneaking back up on me.
Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927–2016) King of Thailand
Source: "King Bhumibol's Reign" in The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/21/magazine/king-bhumibol-s-reign.html (21 May 1989)
“The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.”
Graham Greene book The End of the Affair
Source: The End of the Affair
Rob Sheffield (1966) American music journalist
Variant: I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.
Source: Love Is a Mix Tape
Narendra Modi (1950) Prime Minister of India
2007, "Modi walks out of TV interview after being quizzed on riots", 2007
Context: I am busy with my work. I am committed to Gujarat and I am dedicated to Gujarat. I never talk about my image, never spent a single minute for my image and confusions may be there[. ]
“I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords.”
Alberto Manguel (1948) writer
The Last Page, p. 11.
A History of Reading (1996)