You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.
Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.
This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.
The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.
I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.
My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging.
You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.
To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.
It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.
Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
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.
Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.
In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.
Chamber music - a conversation between friends.
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.
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