Quotes About Dialogue

My goal is to be able to speak to everyone in the country and to be able to make everyone in the country think differently about our political system.

To choose to be silent in any scene sometimes has more notes in my script than when you chose to speak.

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

I have disagreements with leadership, I have disagreements with the speaker, but I have those one-on-one.

In a world where audiences listen for attitudes rather than arguments or information, speakers must feel the pressure to posture rather than engage.

The more of my readers I encounter who say, often apologetically, that they are actually listeners, the more I write for the ear rather than the eye. Small things like identifying speakers in dialogue rather than relying on paragraphing to mark the shifts.

Instead of silencing speakers on campus, perhaps do what you're supposed to in college instead: listen to someone who thinks differently than you do.

We know that our cells are speaking to each other.

I know that speaking with parties, which I do, but not very often, is seen by many as a 'contamination.'

What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation.

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

No one is speaking about the Arab citizens of Israel.

Every player in every team speaks to each other in order to improve the quality on the pitch - that communication is necessary.

Movie dialogue is movie dialogue. It can sound real, but no one speaks that way.

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.

With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that.

Allegri is a coach who speaks a lot.

That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes.

I would not necessarily say that scientists and artists need to collaborate with one another, but it would be helpful for them to talk to one another to, perhaps, give rise to specific ideas that may or may not be carried out together.

Not only our political system is broken, but how we do business and have public discourse with one another. The system in Hollywood, specifically, is not depicting people of color; we're not even talking about Asian Americans or Latino Americans; we're not even getting into that question.

It's not appropriate to pass judgment when we specifically ask people to voice their opinions... even if you ask a question and agree with the answer.

The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.

My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have strong differences, but it does seem to me that most of the country believes it's gone to critical mass in what I would call the professional class across the political spectrum - left and right.

I think I've earned a reputation of being fair and that I'll hear all sides from the entire political spectrum.