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• Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.

  Nick Lampson

  Ties, Understanding, Taiwan

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• Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.

  Denis Leary

  Acting, Actors, Sugar

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• I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father...

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Father, Vivid, Moments

  "In the name of the father". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2003.

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• Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue through which emotional storytelling can be transferred.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Emotional, Media, Two

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• There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.

  David Mamet

  Want

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• The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.

  Shirley Manson

  Powerful, Voice, Feel Good

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• For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together.

  Hilary Mantel

  Running, Book, Together

  "The joys of stationery" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2010.

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• One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Uganda, People, Political

  Thabo Mbeki (2002). “Africa Define Yourself”

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• We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

  James McGreevey

  Anger, Thoughtful, Government

  Farewell address to the state, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2004.

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• I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.

  Donna Mills

  Character, Cutting, Things In Life

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• In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.

  Alan Moore

  Echoes, Pace, Pieces

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• Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

  Evo Morales

  Political, Enemy, Culture

  "Capitalism Has Only Hurt Latin America". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Home, Government, Long

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.75, Best Books on

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• With regard to North Korea, between myself and President Obama earlier, with regard to the so-called launch of satellite, the missile launch, we shared the view that it undermines the efforts of the various countries concerned to achieve the resolution through dialogue.

  Yoshihiko Noda

  Country, Views, Korea

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• I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue.

  Conor Oberst

  Long, Way, Feels

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• On every Bright Eyes record, there's some kind of sound collage that begins it. Some of them have dialogue, some don't. I like it because it can kind of slow down the attention span a bit. It's a way to draw you in to the rest of the record.

  Conor Oberst

  Eye, Sound, Attention

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• The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.

  Samantha Power

  Country, Rights, Government

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• Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Husband, Supportive, Culture

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• From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters of all time. He has ability to match pathos and comedy and drama and then turn it all on a dime. If you're going to make a series based on dialogue, you can't find much better than Woody Allen.

  Jason Reitman

  Drama, Dimes, Comedy

  "Jason Reitman to re-create Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' in live reading" by Anthony Breznican, www.ew.com. November 09, 2012.

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• Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Creating, Knowing

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• Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Wisdom, School, Form

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• Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life.

  Will Self

  Trying, Texture, Consciousness

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• All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

  Wilbur Smith

  Character, Thinking, Pieces

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• I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Play, Way

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.31, University of Michigan Press

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• I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.

  Barbra Streisand

  Moving, Issues, Baffled

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