Quotes About Dialogue

Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.

When you listen deeply, and allow a connection to emerge, the resulting conversations can be profound, creative and extremely useful.

I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking.

Since Svarte and Kol had not a single word to say about this matter, their conversation died out.

I've barely said five words to you. What indication could you possibly have that I am a Yankee?" "Well, we could start with the words 'what indication.' Someone from south of the Mason-Dixon would have said, 'Who the hell are you calling a Yankee?' Then we would have fought.

Emma ended the call and slipped her phone back into

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me to be the greatest civility.

they listened to understand rather than to respond.

Effective communication. Parents and children (even little ones) can learn to listen well and use respectful words to ask for what they need.

trouble with people is, they always think they have to talk.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

Good writers are like magpies, attracted to shiny things and storing away treasures - pieces of dialogue and experience - which pop up from memory unexpectedly.

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Sure," I say. "But I don't have much to tell. Do you want

When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.

Charges of racism are not a form of debate; they are meant to silence debate. Accusations of racism are often transparent attempts to choke off honest discussion.

whites called in from around the country to say they were afraid to disagree with a black person for fear of being thought racist.

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

Any conversation with more than three people is typically a conversation with too many people.

Everyone wants to be heard and respected. It usually doesn't cost much to do, either. And it doesn't really matter all that much whether you ultimately think you're right and they're wrong. Arguing with heated feelings will just increase the burn.