Quotes About Dialogue

Speaking is also a form of action.

No peace among the nations without peace among the religions. No peace among the religions without dialogue between the religions No dialogue between the religions without investigation of the foundation of the religions.

Myron was about to launch into a Berruti-type explanation of how traces didn't really work that way, but Katie never gave him the chance. "Just leave us alone!" And then she hung up. Like another dopey TV cliché, Myron said, "Hello? Hello?" when he knew that Katie Rochester had hung up and was gone. They

The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react.

So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

I've rewritten a lot of the scripts I've done. 'Little Shop Of Horrors' was a complete rewrite, but I didn't touch the dialogue. Essentially, I'm a very good editor.

I try to stay away from stuff that's just action, action, action, action, action, and you kind of fast-forward through the dialogue scenes. I'm not interested in doing that. Give me a reason to fight, and I'll go there. But don't just make it, 'You touched my pen! Haaa-yah!' I've done that before.

We're kind of coached to stay away from touchy subjects just because of the arena that we're in.

Oh, 'Sports Night' was tough because 'Sports Night' was... Well, you know, it's like Mamet. It's Sorkin. And I didn't realize that you had to immediately be off of the other actors' last line in their dialogue.

Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.

I really wanted to speak English because I started touring the world, and I wanted to communicate with people directly.

I don't think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it's just as much the players' fault. Players talk between each other and in the locker room about things that can be improved and then when the time comes to talk and really do something about it they stop.

I am prepared to talk with anyone. I have no personal grudge toward anybody.

By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet him halfway, that is, to open his book and read it.

This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.

I am geared towards communicating on a female level.

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.

Normally, at a debate or a town hall, I would be quick to say to someone, 'That was rude,' or, 'We're going to try to keep it civil here,' or, 'Let's not have personal attacks.'

It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.

Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.