Quotes About Conversation

Conversation creates a new kind of network within organizations. Current networks are used for competitive advantage, but conversation is focused on encouraging people to realize their potential.

I was asked to lose weight by a network for a TV pilot. The conversation happens because you get a job, and your agent or manager calls, and they say, 'They are so excited about you. They just think there is no one better for this part, and they want you to look and feel your best. They really feel that that could include losing 15 or 20 pounds.'

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

I'm always for constructive conversation, meaningful conversation, not just words, but conversation.

I'm always in contact with my manager at Arsenal, who has been a big part of my career, and I'll always talk to him.

Cross-pollination and 'contamination' is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies.

I was always good at being observationally funny - like, contributing something funny to the conversation.

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.

If Alabama were 8-4, they'd still be dominating the conversation.

Me and 50 had a conversation. We good.

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.

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

There's not a lot of conversation going on in my world about softening my image. I'm pretty much who I am.

It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.

Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.

Once in a while, I bump into a knitter, and we have a lovely conversation. But if you figure out the number of people who know me and the people who don't, it's really a small number.

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.

When I'm writing, I need to amplify my thoughts and feelings on just a conversation that I might have had with somebody - somebody close to me. It's often the case that the people closest to me are the people on my mind the most.

When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.

I don't like going to the movies with people that talk a lot. They want to have a conversation or something.

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.