Quotes About Dialogue

Half of a broadcast show, in my experience, is things happening, and the other half is people talking about how they feel about the things that happened. And so there's this sense of everyone saying their subtext out loud.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

I like a naturalism to my dialogue and my comedy. I would rather have a few jokes sail by that might be more subtle than have every single joke hit hard. I would rather the comedy come out of character as opposed to feeling forced. Even if you're giving some laughs up for it.

You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue.

If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.

If you let a person talk long enough, you'll hear their true intentions.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

It is impossible to win an argument with an ignorant man

The only people who really listen to an argument are the neighbours.

Prayer gives us the opportunity to speak to GOD, Meditation allows GOD to speak back to us.

People ought to be a lot quicker to listen to each other and a little slower to listen to something that calls itself a god.

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To read is to enter an intercourse with a text.

Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.

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It seemed like there was no shortage of things for us to talk about: it was like we were, in dialogue, reading a book that had no chapters and no end. There seemed to be no place to break. We walked each other back and forth until our mothers threatened to take a switch to our behinds. In this very literal way, I came to think of a homegirl as someone with whom the soul conversation is so deep and so stirring that you keep walking each other home.

Are we alone? Over time, you will come up with various answers to that same nagging question. Eventually one day it will occur to you that this endless asking is the answer you have been looking for. The fact that we have an ongoing dialogue with the universe is proof enough that there is "something" out there.

It's hard to say why with some people you could talk all day and all night, while with others it's a struggle to find enough to say during a single course at dinner.

It's hard to say why with some people you could talk all day and all night, while with others it's a struggle to find enough to say during a single course at diner.

Always be suspicious of those who pretend to know it all, claim their way is the best way and are willing to force their way on the rest of us.

My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.

Always be willing to look at both sides of the argument. Understanding the other side is the best way to strengthen your own.

Getting people to think about what they think, and asking them questions about it, is the best way I know how to teach.