Quotes About Dialogue

The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself.

We must embrace the North Korean people as part of the Korean nation, and to do that, whether we like it or not, we must recognize Kim Jong-un as their ruler and as our dialogue partner.

Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in a dialogue are much more likely to adhere to these recommendations.

Sectarianism is a real problem, but it should be addressed by people engaging with each other - reconciliation.

Reconciliation is a national decision that has to be debated and a consensus made among Colombians.

There have been many times when I thought I was having a logical discussion with a woman, and then I'm left sitting alone, confused, trying to recount how it went down.

I never recreate dialogue. I have often been asked by people, 'You must have made this up because this is dialogue, right?' Anything in my books that is in quotes comes from some kind of living historical document: a letter, a memoir, a court transcript, a newspaper interview.

We work with every one of them to see if their character wouldn't say a certain thing or if something is worded awkwardly - we work with them to rectify that.

In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that pitch that only dogs can hear. Sometimes I feel I speak at such a pitch that very few people around me communicate with what I'm saying.

When I watch films and it becomes just about the reference and not necessarily a flow with how people naturally speak, that's when you're just saying, 'Okay, I'm trying to be cool and show off.'

Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.

I have always liked hanging out with people and talking to people.

What's much harder is taking on people in your own community.

'The Hateful Eight' is like theatre.

I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to be real.

When people ask me about my dialogue, I say, 'Don't you hear people talking?' That's all I do. I hear a certain type of individual, I decide this is what he should be, whatever it is, and then I hear him. Well, I don't hear anybody that I can't make talk.

You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.

My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.

I love talking to the public, I love hearing what people have got to say.

The things I believe in now are grace and the power of human connection to change hearts and minds and the importance of civil dialogue.

We had a dialogue coach. She helped us with our T's.

It's always been helpful in my experience to just converse with the person in front of me.

Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?