Quotes About Communication

Our first cultural attribute is over-communication rather than under-communication.

I don't want to patronise my audience.

You've got to write for your audience.

But you can't really know your audiences so well.

Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written.

I think mine's such a mish-mash now: I get criticised for sounding like a Yank when I come home, and everybody thinks I'm Australian when I'm in America.

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

There are certain situations, when you're in America, when people understand you better without an Australian accent.

The audience will understand something that's very authentic, and that's all that I want to create.

I think people see me as authentic, just like I am, with my ideas, my style of doing politics.

Am I really an author if I just put pictures in a book?

I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

I like working with authors who are a bit pesky.

My wife and I set up the business, we were always very open about it and had a business author's name as many authors do.

A story about my life should not be particularly interesting, but it is: it's just about me and some kids who didn't know how to talk to each other. It's personal but not autobiographical.

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

Being in the media is one of those things that so many guys say they'd like to do after they play. But you need to actually try a few different avenues to see if you like it - or if you'd be good at it.

I avoid crazy women.

I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.

I think it is a very important thing in football to keep each other awake and alert.

The Internet was supposed to bring people together, but it's created big divisions.

I think it's better, if people aren't getting on, that they should divorce.

The kids and I kind of learned about the divorce at the same time. So that was hard. That was probably the worst part of the whole thing, was being able to deal with how hurt the whole kids were.

Mr. President, How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?