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To the audience, it's like I'm changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show's almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is. -- Steven Wright
You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject. -- Ira Levin
Excuse me? You're a lady?" "I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject. -- Rachel Caine
It's important to see things in perspective. Automobile traffic is responsible for only 12 percent of total CO2 emissions. One should be able to point this out without being accused of changing the subject. -- Martin Winterkorn
Yossarian decided to change the subject. "Now you're changing the subject." he pointed out diplomatically. "I'll bet I can name two things to be miserable about for every one you can name to be thankful for. -- Joseph Heller
I said it, just like that. No stupid jokes, no changing the subject. For once, I wasn't embarrassed, because it was the truth. I had fallen. I think I had always been falling. And she might as well know, if she didn't already, because there was no going back now. Not for me. -- Kami Garcia
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. -- Winston Churchill
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
I'm married to an American, so I guess that has changed my perspective on the subjects I can write about. -- Laurie Graham
Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws. -- Gail Collins
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject. -- Ian Mcewan
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. -- Alvin Toffler
As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years. -- Anthony Holden
Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present. -- Damon Galgut
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. -- Susan Sontag
I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one. -- Gottfried Leibniz
Photography is a demanding action sport. The light can change so quickly. I often find myself sprinting so that I can catch the perfect light falling on a photogenic subject. -- Steven Pinker
Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances. -- Samuel E. Morison
There's a magic that comes from playing entirely to who you are. I've got my specialist subject - in the Mastermind sense - and I wouldn't change it, or who I am. -- Chris Ofili
Every year, I give my dad an advance copy of my latest book. He reads it over the next several nights and says something incredibly supportive. Then he clears his throat nervously and changes the subject. -- Chelsea Cain
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters. -- Pope Paul VI
I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago. -- Asa Gray
Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves. -- Patrick Leahy
I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge. -- Trevor Nunn
In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn. -- John Naisbitt
Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others. -- Cesar Aira
You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject. -- Carolyn Kizer

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