"Isn't it boring ... how people always want to tell you their own stories instead of listening to yours? I suppose that's why psychiatrists are better than friends; the paid listener doesn't interrupt with his own experiences."

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Source : Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub

Helen Van Slyke

#Talking Quotes #People Quotes #Listening Quotes

“I want to work and be happy.”
“Some of the songs have a tinge more pop this time. I wanted to go into different worlds.”
“The Christian Coalition of Alabama will work to ensure that reckless trial lawyers and activist judges will not be able to open the floodgates to increase taxes and that private, Christian, parochial and home-school families will be protected.”
“George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s).”
“I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.”
“It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders.”

Source : James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.63, Crown Business
“Prayer is like money - it has no smell.”

Source : Simone Berteaut (1972). “Piaf: a biography”, HarperCollins Publishers
“If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.”

Source : "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

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