Quotes About Engagement

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

The biggest compliment to me is that guys really approach me and they have a connection with me, so there must be something I'm doing that is authentic, otherwise they wouldn't connect with me so strongly. It's a real compliment.

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

You know, President Obama feels very strongly that the government has a responsibility to engage with the American people, as well as with the world community.

There's a direct relationship between how difficult it is to send a message and how strongly it is received.

You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

We strongly believe that individual advocates play an important role in developing a civil society.

I believe very, very strongly that when you serve, you serve the entire state.

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

I strongly believe that we would be amiss to cut ourselves off from Saudi Arabia without expending every effort to avert disaster.

It's a lot of feelings, I think, when people so strongly associate an actor with a character they play - but the main feeling is I feel very happy that I've been able to play somebody that people connect so strongly to.

I'm struck these days by how often people come up to me and ask to take a photograph instead of shaking hands, meeting one's eyes, and having an actual conversation.

Getting to meet other artists that I admire is one of the best parts of my job. I don't know if I'd say 'star struck' as much as excited to hear other peoples' ideas.

For me, as much fun as it is to watch wrestling is, actually wrestling is what struck a chord with me.

The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.

President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out.

The more you can create a structure by which people live in a fantastical situation and by which they will act, and the more you lay that out for the audience, the more they will feel at home in it.

You have an hour and a half or two hours - maybe two and a half hours - in a movie, and it has to be a self-contained three-act structure. It's like a rock and roll song. Certain things have to happen for it to be a toe-tapper and get people excited, leaving the theater.

A structure is a bit like a story. People will go along with you - they see where you're going.

Communication needs to be between anybody at any time, which means it needs to happen out of the structure and out of order.

Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity. And part of that activity is honesty.

Speaking as a parent, I don't think parents think all the time about structures. I know from conversations I've had with other mums, I'll ask: 'Is your child's school an academy or a local authority school?' - and they'll look at me blankly.

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

I think it's really important as a parent to be present, and I really, really worked hard because my dad struggled with that. And it really bothered me as a kid that I would want to share something with him, and he didn't hear me.