Conversation Quotes - Page 23

• When talking with a set designer the dialogue is more centered on locations, interior design, what I like and what doesn't work. There is a certain taste I'm drawn to and feel inspired by, and finding that inspiration is what keeps the conversation moving forward.

  Marc Forster

  Moving, Inspiration, Talking

  Interview with Octavio Molina, www.askmen.com. August 30, 2014.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I always loved mascara and eyelash curlers to make your eyes look very open and wide and when I'm having a conversation with somebody that's always the first thing I'm attracted to, so I've been into mascara since I was little.

  Erin Brady

  Eye, Looks, Littles

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I've been around politics a long time. I've seen it at its best and its worst, been at so many events, listened to private conversations versus public speaking, understood the game of it, and in many ways the theatrics.

  Kevin Spacey

  Games, Long, Events

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I've had conversations with journalists that I've never had with anybody else.

  Tori Amos

  Interviews, Sometimes, Journalist

  "Tori Amos's Misucal Memories". Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.

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• If you can give people happiness, you're in their hearts. Now you can just start having conversations with people that you would not have had under other circumstances.

  June Millington

  Heart, Giving, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Don't let other people's conversations about what you're doing or you've done be part of your own conversation.

  Kristen Stewart

  People, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.

  Cees Nooteboom

  Doe

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• I really [enjoy] working with new people and just sort of the freshness of it. ... I [want] to have those new conversations, musically and otherwise.

  James Mercer

  People, Want, Enjoy

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• Meaning is made in conversation, reality is created in communication, and knowledge is generated through social interaction.... Language is the vehicle through which we create our understanding of the world.

  Diana Whitney

  Communication, Reality, Understanding

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• The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based on expediency, the fashionable ideas of the moment are right on top of the pile, ready to be displayed in bright after dinner conversation. But the ideas that make up a man's philosophy of life are somewhere way down below.

  Eric Johnston

  Philosophy, Believe, Men

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• If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave.

  Virginia Woolf

  Successful, Night, Sight

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• You may have living and habitual conversation in heaven, under the aspect of the most simple, ordinary life. Remember that holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Heart, Simple, Heaven

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• A woman doesn't find it contradictory to complain about not having anything to wear and about not having enough closet space in the same conversation. You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

  Marie Stopes

  Beautiful, Space, Soul

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• There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Sinclair Lewis (2002). “Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth”

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