Conversation Quotes - Page 22

• We're looking for a certain kind of realism or naturalism, and we go about it in different ways, but I think we're all striving for the same end result, which is to capture the patterns of conversations and how people interact in a very realistic way.

  Joe Swanberg

  Thinking, People, Different

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• We need to have honest conversations among women and men to say how do we stop blaming each other? Because I'm not saying that every woman wants to be a corporate CEO. We need so that the women who are corporate CEOs get supported and they're not looking askance or down at women who make other choices in life.

  Debora Spar

  Men, Choices, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My first policy move would be to try to get a conversation going in the US about what people stand for and what we really want. Do we want to keep adding people to the world and to our country until we move to a battery-chicken kind of existence and then collapse? Or do we want to think hard about what really is valuable to us, and figure out how many people we can supply that to sustainably?

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Country, Moving, Thinking

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• Personally, I like to hang out in the kitchen. That's my safe space in a party environment. I feel like it's a little quieter so you can actually have conversations with people, and anybody else who's also in the kitchen is probably someone I can have a decent conversation with.

  Hannah Hart

  Party, Space, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Listening to your own sets and listening to the audience as you perform. It's a conversation of sorts. There is an exchange.

  Ted Alexandro

  Listening, Audience

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• The more you perform, the more adept you get at the nuances of navigating that communal conversation.

  Ted Alexandro

  Nuance, Adept

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• I find it very hard to believe that people would prefer an awkward picture with me than a normal conversation.

  Alison Pill

  Believe, People, Awkward

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• It's possible that the name Bettini came up at some point during a conversation with the German Cycling Federation's anti-doping commission, but I certainly didn't claim that he gave me any drugs. They made that up. Bettini warned me: If you said that, then things could get dangerous for you.

  Patrik Sinkewitz

  Names, Cycling, Drug

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• If I want to have a conversation, I can't have a list of questions, because the second question on the list is going to interrupt the conversation.

  Michael Silverblatt

  Want, Lists, Ifs

  Interview with Sarah Fay, believermag.com. June 1, 2010.

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• A lot of times in my short fiction there isn't much dramatized scene - there are a lot of short, interconnected bits, snippets of conversation, continual action, and so on. I frequently rely pretty heavily on voice.

  Dan Chaon

  Voice, Fiction, Action

  Interview with Tom Barbash, www.believermag.com.

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• The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

  David Whyte

  Want, Courageous

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• ...An honest conversation with anyone is a form of praying.

  Kate Jacobs

  Honest, Praying, Form

  Kate Jacobs (2008). “The Friday Night Knitting Club”, p.314, Penguin

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• But in order to survive in this foreign world, I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative space between people was just as important as the positive space we occupy. The air between our resting bodies, and the breath in our conversations, were all like the white of the canvas, and the rest our relationship- the laughter and the memories- were the brushstroke applied over time.

  Alyson Richman

  Laughter, Memories, Air

  Alyson Richman (2011). “The Lost Wife”, p.236, Penguin

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• Generative ideas emerge from joint thinking, from significant conversations, and from sustained, shared struggles to achieve new insights from partners in thought.

  Vera John-Steiner

  Struggle, Thinking, Ideas

  Vera John-Steiner (2006). “Creative Collaboration”, p.16, Oxford University Press

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• At some point you do not need to talk to have a conversation. The conversation exists whether you have it or not. It continues silently in a parallel dimension of the marriage. They both pause to let it run its course toward another stalemate.

  Chris Bachelder

  Running, Needs, Dimensions

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• The Conversation was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is.

  Petra Haden

  Simple, Piano, Saws

  "Petra Haden picks her favorite cinematic scores of all time" by Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. January 22, 2013.

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• This is one of the last industries where the subject is off limits. Nobody’s comfortable in engaging in a conversation.

  Rick Welts

  Lasts, Limits, Engaging

  "A Sports Executive Leaves the Safety of His Shadow Life". Interview with Dan Barry, www.nytimes.com. May 15, 2011.

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• Spirituality in Washington can be more of a - I don't want to say it - but, a networking opportunity. Religion is often used opportunistically in the political conversation.

  Mark Leibovich

  Opportunity, Political, Networking

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• 1. Don't be boring.
  2. Be able to pass the airport test; be interesting enough to carry on a 3 hour conversation with a stranger.
  3. When in doubt, do what you can never do again.

  Michael Bell

  Airports, Interesting, Doubt

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• Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

  George Santayana

  Art, Republican, Eloquence

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Gossip, House, Royal

  Marthe Bibesco (1930). “Some royalties and a prime minister: portraits from life”

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• I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent!

  Ira Carmen

  Science, Political, Department

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• We must carry things beyond conversation to conclusion.

  Richard L. Evans

  Conclusion

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• We have to enforce the laws we've already got, make sure that we're keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, those who are mentally ill. I also share your belief that weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets. And so what I'm trying to do is to get a broader conversation about how do we reduce the violence generally.

  Barack Obama

  War, Gun, Hands

  Second 2012 presidential debate, www.cbsnews.com. October 17, 2012.

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• Information is floating around really fast. I write something, or a piece of my music comes out and I see people writing about it on the Internet as if I'm having a conversation with them. We've never met, but somehow, my music is communicating something to them. Very often, it really makes them feel something.

  Hans Zimmer

  Writing, People, Floating

  Source: www.pbs.org

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