Conversation Quotes - Page 14

• I like things that are funny - in everyday conversation, in incidents that you see, in watching TV or watching film. Comedy has always had an impact on my life.

  Patrick Stewart

  Impact, Everyday, Watching Tv

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I feel the theatre is the most unique one of all [the arts] for collaboration. I feel very fortunate to be in a field where I really do get to have long conversations with the visual artists, the actors, the musicians. It's all art forms rolled into one and I feel very fortunate to be a part of it.

  Susan Stroman

  Art, Unique, Long

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Hip hop started in NY so it's important that New Yorkers realise that to talk about NY music and its sound should not be a small-minded conversation. Music is supposed to evolve. It's supposed to be going through changes, it's not supposed to sound exactly the same as what it did when it started. NY hip hop has to be allowed to move on and grow and expand.

  Nas

  Moving, Hip Hop, Important

  Source: www.hypemagazine.co.za

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• When I began to think deeply about the metaphysics of love I talked with everyone around me about it. I talked to large audiences and even had wee one-on-one conversations with children about the way they think about love. I talked about love in every state, everywhere I traveled.

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Thinking, Way

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one's mind.

  Barbara Pym

  Mind, Important, Odd

  Barbara Pym (2013). “An Unsuitable Attachment”, p.164, Pan Macmillan

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• Most of the comics that I talk to I've never talked to for more than ten minutes ever. So 95 percent of the time you're really hearing the first conversation between me and that guy on the podcast.

  Marc Maron

  Guy, Hearing, Firsts

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• My favorite part is being engaged with somebody's story and life, and getting a laugh with people I have a tremendous amount of respect for or not, and being challenged by the immediacy of conversation.

  Marc Maron

  People, Laughing, Stories

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• I feel like so much of my life is about a conversation I'm having with myself. I do interact with other people, but often I'm more interested in what I'm learning in the relationship I have with myself.

  Mike White

  People, Life Is, Feels

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy. If you're trying to have a normal conversation, you've got to have a normal conversation. If you're trying to make them sad, you've got to make them sad. I think that's how you get real performances out of people.

  Jonah Hill

  Real, Thinking, Make Someone Happy

  "Jonah Hill On Set Interview GET HIM TO THE GREEK – Also Talks THE ADVENTURER’S HANDBOOK, His Career, Sequels, and SO Much More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 13, 2010.

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• What track needs to figure out: how to engage us between the races. Instead, the entire off-the-track conversation is about doping. This is how you kill a sport.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Sports, Race, Track

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• I barely got out of school, I got out of school, mainly, because I was a champ, and I actually didn't pass. I won't name the teachers that put me through, but I want. If I was not a Muslim, or a follower of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed I couldn't talk to somebody for two minutes. I believe I can hold my own as an intelligent conversation, but it all come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed.

  Muhammad Ali

  Teacher, Believe, School

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• Requesting a change of environment was an extremely difficult decision. After a tremendous amount of reflection and numerous conversations with my family, it made the most sense to seek a change.

  Dany Heatley

  Reflection, Decision, Environment

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• If you want to make a substantial reduction in your carbon footprint, doing it on your own is virtually impossible, especially if you're driving a car. Here are tools available in the marketplace, enabling our customers to have this conversation.

  Tom Arnold

  Carbon Footprint, Tools, Enabling

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• At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

  Susan Jacoby

  Women, Heart, Emotional

  Susan Jacoby (2008). “The Age of American Unreason”, p.269, Vintage

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• It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Past, Roots, History

  Reader's Digest Vol. 130, 1987.

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• If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or artifice destroys the effect of the best collection of words.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Art, Sculpture, Literature

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.77

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• How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.

  Po Bronson

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Liberty, Libertarian

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1968). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967”, p.313, Best Books on

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• The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

  Hayley Atwell

  Art, Communication, Talking

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• Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that conversation, and renew their own early times.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Women, Love Is, Giving

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1873). “Works”, p.457

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• The real relatedness between two people is experienced in the small tasks they do together: the quiet conversation when the day's upheavels are at rest, the soft word of understanding, the daily companionship, the encouragement offered in a difficult moment, the small gift when least expected, the spontaneous gesture of love.

  Robert A. Johnson

  Marriage, Encouragement, Real

  Robert A. Johnson (1983). “We, understanding the psychology of romantic love”, Harper San Francisco

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• What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation...we must follow what brings us alive.

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Gardening

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.203, Random House

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• Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

  Susan Jacoby

  Art, Real, Women

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• The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from another point of view, the words dry in your mouth.

  David Hare

  Russia, Views, America

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I don't Twitter. I can't even remember my password name. I have problems with electronics, so what I've done is hire a young man out of college, whose very fingers are the extension of computer keys, and he Twitters. He does the mechanics, but I very carefully modulate what is said and have used Twitter to publicize stuff, have conversations and instigate competition.

  William Shatner

  College, Men, Keys

  Source: collider.com

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