Quotes About Engagement

I don't want to be taking up space, but as long as I can make a contribution, I want to play.

I think the point is that each of us, in our own unique ways, can make a contribution. You don't have to be a full time activist or even run for office. Start small, commit to it, and build on it.

I've always felt I've made a contribution wherever I've been.

You can't control how an audience responds to something. It's up to them.

Controversy sells books.

I think that in the blogosphere, the idea is to have the most controversial stuff up.

Who knows controversies better than me? The controversies always chase people who are active and decision makers.

Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.

I don't feel people are that interested in snooker any more and the only thing that will get snooker back into the limelight is more controversy.

I do like making things a bit controversial - I think that's what sells and what catches people's ear.

If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get.

No one will be hurt if I don't come to conventions.

What you want to do is make people talk, start a conversation.

Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.

I love somebody that can hold a great conversation.

I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.

The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

When Richard Pryor did comedy, it was like he was having a conversation.

I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.

I flirted with Rihanna once. It didn't work - but it didn't not work. It didn't go anywhere, but it was a great conversation.

Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.

The best thing that I bring in my live show is that it's not scripted. It's more of a conversation with my audience. And that's what people like about the show - it's very real. There are mistakes and laughter.