Quotes About Dialogue

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

I'm more than willing to go to places and talk to people who believe that I am an illegal alien who deserves to be jailed. I want to look them in the eye and say, 'What makes you think I'm any different from you?' I think for our generation, immigration rights is a civil rights issue.

If it is not possible for me to go somewhere and to be willing to encounter people with different views, then I'm really not doing my job.

You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you're dealing with.

I think the coach-player relationship is a two-way thing. You have to be willing to take suggestions as a player and vice versa.

I think people are willing to talk about anything if you come to it with kindness.

The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.

I hope it goes beyond meeting with them to a willingness to listen and compromise on issues.

I'm willing to meet with anyone, Democrat or Republican, who has a good idea, an open mind and a willingness to come together to tackle the challenges we face.

There has been a genuine willingness from many in the arts sector to try to understand people who are not within the arts elite.

I've seen some terrible plays, but I generally enjoy myself. One play I walked out of, I have a tremendous respect for the author. That was Robert Wilson, something called 'Network,' which consisted of Wilson sitting on a bunk, the dialogue of the movie 'Network' looped in while a chair on a rope went up and down.

The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that.

A horror film does not rely on dialogues and music. It is the sound of creaking doors, the window banging open and the build-up that is not easy to achieve.

'West Wing' was a show about politics.

Political talk on TV has degenerated so much. You can say something complex on 'The West Wing' and you will not suffer a screaming interruption by three other panelists.

I'm not specifically attached to anything other than trying to, in my personal life, fight against where I see right wing thinking. Whether it be around my dinner table or on the street or somebody reading the New York Post.

I've always written a little bit. I mean, I've written screenplays, and I've doctored my dialogue for years, and I've written speeches - I was a speechwriter on 'The West Wing,' so I like that kind of thing. But I never really thought I'd write a book.

He who frames the question wins the debate.

War's stupid. Nobody wins. You might as well talk first; you have to talk last anyway.

Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts.

We've got to take confrontation out of the centre of politics. With fighting, no one wins; with dialogue, everyone wins.

I text with my dad during every 'Scandal' episode. We talk story lines, acting, and fashion.

I like to talk to people on the phone. I don't like to do critical stuff by text message.

Men tend to listen in what I call a reductive way, which is to say for a point, for a solution. You know, we like to have a problem and solve it. Bang. Thank you very much. On to the next thing.