Quotes About Dialogue

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims.

Government requires bringing people together and genuinely hearing their issues. It requires the establishment and strengthening of community.

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

It's funny, because even though on a drama like 'Picket Fences' those long monologues would stress me out, doing special effects where there's a green screen and there's nobody there to to react to and you have to recite all this dialogue, it's so much more difficult.

I wouldn't say I'm strict. I love to communicate with my kids, and I constantly check in and try to talk things through instead.

Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue.

My hope is to create spaces where people of all stripes can come together and speak at a lower decibel level. We make more sense that way. We sound more like our real selves that way.

I can't even look at daily comic strips. And I hate sitcoms because they don't seem like real people to me: they're props that often say horrible things to each other, which I don't find funny. I have to feel like they're real people.

I have an increasingly strong feeling that all of us, myself included, too many times make too many statements and don't ask enough questions.

I do feel very strongly about my values and principles, but at the end of day I'm open-minded and I enjoy listening to other people's agendas.

I like writing characters that seem different from one another. So if you were to hypothetically look at a bunch of lines from books I've written, just out of context, hopefully you would be able to determine who said what. That's the goal, anyway. I try to strongly differentiate through dialogue.

I strongly feel that there has to be a dialogue process internally as well as externally, with Pakistan.

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

A lot of people probably don't realize how difficult it is to stick to that lawyer speak when you're not a lawyer. I see everyone on 'The Good Wife' - everyone, people who have been there since day one - struggling with that language because it is just not how people talk.

I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.

My father would never have said about any of his children you shouldn't express your opinions. But it's the way in which you express them. And for me to do - to speak at demonstrations and be as strident as I was now I see wasn't right. And it - there was a better way to do it. I could have written articles.

What I want is a clash of ideas, not opinions.

I decided to get to know my opponents and their arguments.

We oppose occupation of land by force and we believe in dialogue as the method for regaining Arab rights. This is the spirit of the Great Arab Revolt.

In television writing, you want to hear what the characters say as opposed to giving them something to say. It's the same with the cartoons.

As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers.

I'm not opposed to talking with anyone who is willing to talk.