Quotes About Dialogue

An agreement cannot be the result of an imposition.

We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing.

What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.

Improv acting is not just saying the lines but connecting with the other actor.

There are a lot of things that need to be done to improve communications.

With any mannerisms or dialogue, you have to be careful you're not just serving yourself. What happens with improving is a lot of times, if you're not in the framework of the script, you're just making everything easier so it fits you.

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.

If you have a great script and great dialogue, you don't need to improvise.

Improvising political dialogue is not easy.

Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I'd be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there's energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It's a living thing, and you just follow it.

In the end, you can' t talk to everyone.

There is an incredible appetite out there for in-depth, high-level conversations about what's going on.

It's important for people to, instead of automatically assuming everything the opposite side says is incorrect, you have to at least listen and see why someone might feel a certain way.

So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.

Communicative and deliberative approaches work well as ideals and evaluative yardsticks for decision making, but they are quite defenceless in the face of power.

Scattò tutta la testa verso di lui e disse: «Come comincerai la tua prossima lettera? Fulvia dannazione?» Lui aveva scosso la testa, frusciando i capelli contro la corteccia del ciliegio. Fulvia si affannò. «Vuoi dire che non ci sarà una prossima lettera?» «Semplicemente che non la comincerò Fulvia dannazione. Non temere, per le lettere. Mi rendo conto. Non possiamo più farne ameno. Io di scrivertele e tu di riceverle».

D. T.] Suzuki's work is in some ways an attempt at a spiritual reconquista , and his "dialogue" with Christians may have the same motivations as [Francis] Xavier's conversations with Japanese Buddhists.

Komm, geh mit angeln, sagt der Fischer zum Wurm.

We all have a sphere of influence. Each of us needs to find our own sources of courage so that we can begin to speak. There are many problems to address, and we cannot avoid them indefinitely. We cannot continue to be silent. We must begin to speak, knowing that words alone are insufficient. But I have seen that meaningful dialogue can lead to effective action. Change is possible.

You ever use that mouth for something besides sassing?

Truthful speech provides, in the sphere of interpersonal communication, a parallel to wisdom in the sphere of private understanding.

Kar??l?kl? oturup konu?mam?z gerekiyor, ben uyduraca??m, o soracak, ben yan?tlayaca??m, o birtak?m ad?mlar atacak, ad?m ad?m bulaca??z arad???m?z?.

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think–in a deeper voice.

I've sat behind a microphone and listened for decades as Americans learned to stop talking with each other and start shouting instead. No discussions, just 'socialist' or 'fascist' or 'feminazi' or 'bigot' or whatever. So here's what I want to say, and I think it's the one thing no one ever says any more in our public life: I think you're wrong, but you may be right .