Quotes About Engrossment

All they can talk about is Manchester United.

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But she saw that his eyes, which were sand-colored like his face, and sandy-lashed, had found another occupation. They were fixed on Conchita Closson, who sat opposite to him; they rested on her unblinkingly, immovably, as if she had been a natural object, a landscape or a cathedral, that one had traveled far to see, and had the right to look at as long as one chose. He's drinking her up like blotting paper. I thought they were better brought up over in England!

when I talk to people I really like to talk to them, and not just exchange pleasantries and wonder which of us is going to try to get away first. Most social occasions leave me less than enthralled.

I have a very simple definition of a good movie: a good movie makes you forget you're watching a movie.

When I watch a movie myself, I want to forget that I'm watching a movie, and I want to be inside the movie. That's the kind of experience I want my audience to have.

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

When I was doing 'NBA Inside Stuff' and 'NBA on NBC', I always saw my interactions with players as a conversation.

We are a company for the people, please get involved. Be part of the conversation.

It pleases me that people can be interactive.

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

A man is as alive as he can communicate.

Comments are my main way to communicate with you bros.

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.

When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.

Life is for participating, not for spectating.

Philip thought; you have to do something to keep their attention.

Gwenda sat with her back against a hornbeam tree and studied Wulfric and Annet with the fascination of a condemned man watching the carpenter build the gallows.

John. I would ask you what you are doing, but I fear you would actually tell me.

so fascinated I couldn't stop.

There is no such thing as doing nothing. There is no such thing as neutral or uninvolved. At every moment, social life involves all of us.

I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience.

The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

I do like talk shows. I'm interested in talking to people.