Conversation Quotes - Page 20

• Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

  Padgett Powell

  People, Way, Direct

  Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012.

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• It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the President had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone. It's a larger anthropological shift in my mind than even the tattoo age in the United States.

  Padgett Powell

  Tattoo, Communication, Phones

  Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012.

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• My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full of discussions of condensation, drifts, misunderstanding, repetition. These are the materials I work with. My debt is to these women.

  Lucrecia Martel

  Mother, Stories, Oral Tradition

  "'Headless Woman' Director Lucrecia Martel: My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition". Interview with Eugene Hernandez, www.indiewire.com. August 20, 2009.

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• It's often said that I choose subjects that are sensational! I choose to film subjects that spark difficult conversations and make people uncomfortable. Change only comes about when people are forced to discuss an issue, and that's what I hope my films do.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Issues, People, Sparks

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I love the art history ones because it's so little work for me. There's so many paintings that when I look at them, the look on the lady's face is like so clear and her body language and her posture or their physical situation is so immediately recognizable. Anyone who's been in a conversation they didn't want to have, or been getting harangued by a little kid they didn't want to pay attention to or been tired and wanted to go to bed is just like, "Yes, of course."

  Mallory Ortberg

  Art, Kids, Tired

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Shyness means you are in the hallway of a greater presence. You just don't know how to take the conversation another step. It's a lovely indication.

  David Whyte

  Mean, Lovely, Steps

  "Courageous Conversations: An Interview with David Whyte". Interview with Kim Rosen, spiritualityhealth.com. December 8, 2014.

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• The workplace needs the poet's gift. But the poet also needs to be educated about the workplace. You're not just coming in to do your art, you're actually making yourself vulnerable. You yourself are not God's gift to truth. You have to hazard yourself in their world, especially because you're inviting people to do the same. It's all about become visible, becoming incarnate, becoming here and now and yet with our eyes on a future horizon; holding the conversation you were meant to hold.

  David Whyte

  Art, Eye, People

  "Courageous Conversations: An Interview with David Whyte". Interview with Kim Rosen, spiritualityhealth.com. December 8, 2014.

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• In Hawaii, if you're invited to dinner, it's assumed that the children are invited as well. On the islands, no one treats children like they're not part of the conversation. People talk to children as people and include them in adventures and conversations.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Children, Adventure, Islands

  "Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece for the Winter cover of Inspirato Magazine". Interview with Grant Davis in Malibu, California, www.lairdhamilton.com. December 1, 2014.

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• I've learned I don't like being around people too much. It's hard to stand around and make conversation with people I've learned. But I do want to be the guy that can do it easily.

  Aesop Rock

  People, Guy, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• From the Rabbis of the early Talmudic age I learned that there is never a last word on God. There's, you always continue to question. Even God himself could be questioned and you can keep arguing with one another and there will be no end to this conversation about the divine because no human expression of God can be ultimate.

  Karen Armstrong

  Expression, Age, Lasts

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• We've all had those phone conversations. Things are heated, you're in a position where you're gonna say something nasty. Instead, you say, "Oh, I've got that thing in the oven." Lie. Get off the phone. Don't perpetuate a bad situation.

  Joe Manganiello

  Lying, Phones, Nasty

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I feel like in a conversation if things get said and then repeated, it sort of becomes inherently part of the narrative whether you want it to be or not.

  Panda Bear

  Want, Narrative, Said

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A talk show is difficult because the formula is always the same: there's a host and there's guests. Really what you can change is only so much. So, I don't have any pre-interviews, which forces real conversation.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Real, Guests, Interviews

  "Jenny McCarthy Breaks Down Her New Talk Show". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.

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• The work is different in the sense that I haven't had to travel round the world raising money, or work from the genesis of the project. But the collaboration feels clear always, it's sort of my drug, I'm in it for the conversation. The conversation's the most important part of it.

  Tilda Swinton

  Drug, Important, Collaboration

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• This is not a movie about smelling the urine! It's another kind of movie." Volker Schlöndorff got Billy Wilder to agree to these conversations - you can buy it - because Volker spoke German at times. And he said to Billy Wilder: "What is in your mind?" And he said: "If you're going to try to tell the truth to the audience, you'd better be funny or they'll kill you." And I haven't forgotten that.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Mind, Trying, Kind

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• And so out of the blue the call did come and said, you know, "Would you be - would you consider turning this [The Starter Wife] now into a series?" And so obviously that was a shock. And all the conversations began. And, you know, and now we're here. Now we're finishing up our last episode right now.

  Debra Messing

  Blue, Finishing, Lasts

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The holidays often bring challenging conversations and situations. Sometimes holiness demands that we speak, other times it invites us to be silent. In all circumstances, though, we are called to love.

  Mark Hart

  Holiday, Challenges, Demand

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• That conversation... was as dirty as a sewer! It is not enough for you to take no part in it. You must show your repugnance for it strongly!

  Josemaria Escriva

  Dirty, Enough, Chastity Purity

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• The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Vocabulary, Would Be

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.209, Harvard University Press

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• The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long continuous conversations with itself.

  Barry Mazur

  Long, Humanity, Lasts

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• Our conversation rate has to go up before our conversion rate can go up.

  Reggie McNeal

  Rate, Conversion

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• When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.

  Brendan Behan

  Talking, People, Way

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• Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.

  Umberto Eco

  Demand, Diplomats, Fool

  Umberto Eco (2001). “Foucault's Pendulum”, Random House

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• We are not simply intellectual creatures. We wish to make love, to enjoy a gourmet dinner, to jog in the park, to cheer lustily at a ball game, to engage in spirited conversation with our friends, to play bridge or tennis, travel to exotic places, struggle with others to build a better world, and to enjoy the arts. The arts are so vital because they help to make life worth living. Music, poetry, literature, paintings, dance, and the theater are among our richest joys...The fine arts contribute immeasurably to the good life and that is why we cherish them.

  Paul Kurtz

  Art, Good Life, Cheer

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• Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Students, Wells

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