"Sometimes people killed cats to eat," she blurted out as she sat in a disused banquet hall milling with aid officials, Syrian security forces, and distraught families.

“Don’t,” blurted her mother, Rebecca Marriott, who laughed along with everyone else, but kept sneaking anxious peeks at her watch.

When Golijov visited the set in Atlanta last year, Coppola — who hadn’t seen the composer in 12 years — stopped what he was shooting and blurted out: “Osvaldo, we need a big love theme!”

As soon as he approached me, I blurted out: “Oh my God, I was such a One Direction fan.”

We'd barely ordered chips and guac when I blurted to my Aunt Brigid, "Did you know my mother had another child?"