Quotes About Dialogue

He'd learned the key thing about any serious conversation with Felix, which was that you couldn't let him distract you.

When I think about moving forward, in mutual recognition, towards resolution, I think about the word agreement. Not that we would hold the same views, but rather that we would communicate enough to agree on what each of our different views actually are.

cross-talk, no countering, and no criticism.

Funny how hard it is to keep talking, when someone asks you to start and not stop.

Conflict is the essential core of a free and open society.

She stared at me with that questioning look people often get when I open my mouth.

Some threads narrow to 2 people going back and forth, and they should get a room (email/Skype/hotel).

Where are all the reasonable people?" and realized the answer was that many reasonable people don't contact support.

When taking actions, wise people apply multiple models like a doctor's set of diagnostic tests. They use models to rule out some actions and privilege others. Wise people and teams construct a dialogue across models, exploring their overlaps and differences.

Q: What is a forum? A: Two-um plus two-um.

I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.

I can't have composite characters. I can't attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.

So sometimes it is an outright manipulation like that, but most of the time I'm just, I'm creating a mood that is a place of comfort for the person and a way for our dialogue to be more fluid.

I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, Oh, okay, babe, and I see it in scripts all the time.

With music, I wasn't curious anymore. There was no dialogue. By the time I stopped, I knew it wasn't going to be gone forever, but it just wasn't the right time for me to care about that.

Trying to execute that kind of intricate staging in the West Wing at the same time you're doing intricate dialogue - it's like patting your head and rubbing your stomach!

I talk to players all the time.

He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time

Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.

I love interaction with audiences. If were my choice, I would spend most of my time interacting with audiences. Walking around and asking them to challenge me.

I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.

It is time the Arabs and the Jews sat down and settled this dispute in the true Christian spirit.

You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.

It's very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the words.