Quotes About Engagement

One day, I discovered that a couple of people had written 'fanfic' - stories of their own based on my characters. Just the thought of people thinking that hard and deeply about something I've written is incredible.

The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.

The experience of reading is very interesting because you put yourself in the character's shoes and everything they're discovering, you marry the experience.

I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it.

I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?

We've navigated a lot of change at Campbell's. The best thing for me to be able to do is to discuss that change with people.

I like being able to talk about work while we're making dinner. I'd rather discuss it at that moment while it's fresh.

I never like to sit and discuss my character, the other character, our relationship, or anything like that. I feel like if I did my job and I trust that the other person has done theirs, you just go on set, play around with it, chew the scene for a little bit; then we roll, and that's it.

That which concerns everyone must also be discussed and approved by everyone.

I want to write about serious things, but I want to write about them in a way that makes them accessible to a large number of people - to take them through the argument by dramatizing the circumstances in which these issues are being discussed.

Be who you are, do what you do and let us get on with discussing the real issues of this country.

It's important to learn how to have conversations with other people where it's not debating but discussing.

Game calls can't be just, 'Oh, by the way,' as part of a larger discussion.

We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged in national discussion - and so, we're clunky. We're all clunky. But it's better than not doing it.

If you have the ability and the wherewithal to create work that's basically in a discussion with the culture we're in, how could you not want to do that?

I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.

When people don't like my politics, I am happy to have a political discussion with them.

I really love being a part of the creative process. I love having an opinion that gets heard, and then it's all up for discussion.

If you let things devolve into a shouting match, then it's really difficult to have a discussion, a serious discussion.

It's important to contribute to group discussions, but if all you're thinking about is when you'll get the opportunity to speak - and stressing about whether you'll sound smart - you won't be fully engaged in the conversation.

For too long, some lazy politicians have engaged leaders of Muslim communities as a shortcut to engaging disenfranchised Muslim citizens.

Engagement is always better then disengagement. If we don't talk, somebody else will.

Nobody is going to be more disinterested in your work than your own kid.

Work appealed to me; school did not. I was a disinterested, bored student.