Quotes About Dialogue

I wanted people to begin dialogue about racism, about colorism. I wanted people to really become honest about our beliefs, about racism and how it exists in America today.

I don't have all the answers. I'm just supposed to present what I think is an issue and have dialogue start.

I think it's always in order to engage in constructive dialogue, even when you may not get any results.

It was always the same thing - no script, dialogue at the last minute. Everyone always thought we just said anything we wanted. It's difficult to explain - some actors want to know why they have to do this and that. It was so simple and natural with Godard.

I love to see great dialogue in the cinema but I hate to see 'Film TV.'

I'm about dialogue, and I'm always willing to talk.

If I'm doing different accents, I feel like I'm acting. If I'm doing my own accent, I feel like I'm saying someone else's dialogue as myself.

It bloody annoys me when people forget that we're actors. Just because we tend to appear in things with our own accents, saying dialogue that comes naturally to us, people think we're just being ourselves.

It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.

White America don't get to dictate how me and Shaq talk to each other.

I am not a dictator; I am a communicator.

I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to make it safe to access art.

If you tap people's racial anxieties, you're not going to get them to be able to hear any of your facts.

There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly.

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

One of the things my father taught me was you should not exclude those who are opposed to your ideas.

The Tea Parties are only here because people are not listening.

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.

For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.

Evangelicals too often fall short in their actual teachings about Judaism.

If I have something to say then I am prepared to speak to my teammates about it.

For this reason, masterful communicators make it their goal to listen and understand first, before attempting to be heard and understood.

In fact, there can be no doubt that when people have the experience that they've been listened to and understood, they let go of their preoccupation with their own thoughts and feelings. The door to their mind swings open, and that makes it much easier for them to hear you.