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Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue.

Samuel Goldwyn

Funny, Witty, Century

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By blood and faith, Jews are God's chosen, and have no need for 'dialogue' with any gentile.

Bruce Edwards Ivins

Blood, Needs, Jew

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Every religion contains, in varying degrees, elements of the soft and the hard. For the sake of world peace, dialogue within religions and among them must strengthen the softer aspects.

Johan Galtung

Degrees, Elements, World

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In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative.

Lea Salonga

Song, Book, Missing

"SOUND OFF Special Interview: Lea Salonga". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. November 11, 2010.

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Many writers struggle with exposition in their novels. Often they heap it on in large chunks of straight narrative. Back story – what happens before the novel opens – is especially troublesome. How can we give the essentials and avoid a mere information drop?
Use dialogue. First, create a tension-filled scene, usually between two characters. Get them arguing, confronting each other. Then you can have the information appear in the natural course of things.

James Scott Bell

Struggle, Writing, Character

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Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It’s always the unspoken word and what’s happening behind someone’s eyes that makes it so rich.

Viola Davis

Eye, Different, Unspoken Words

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There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It’s always heartbreaking.

Ethan Hawke

Real, Writing, Heartbreaking

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I remain convinced that most human conflicts can be solved through genuine dialogue conducted with a spirit of openness and reconciliation.

Dalai Lama

Spirit, Conflict, Genuine

Dalai Lama's Speech to the European Parliament, tibet.net. October 24, 2001.

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It is neither a culture of confrontation nor a culture of conflict which builds harmony within and between peoples, but rather a culture of encounter and a culture of dialogue; this is the only way to peace.

Pope Francis

Encounters, Culture, Way

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Artists can help re-imagine a conflict and start a dialogue.

Romesh Gunesekera

Artist, Helping, Conflict

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Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue

Abdullah Yusuf Azzam

Rifles, Negotiation, Conferences

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When we face problems or disagreements today, we have to arrive at solutions through dialogue. Dialogue is the only appropriate method. One-sided victory is no longer acceptable. We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others.

Dalai Lama

Mind, Victory, Today

"Open Heart: Practising Compassion in Everyday Life". Book by Dalai Lama, p. 13, September 5, 2002.

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One must not be afraid of a little silence. Some find silence awkward or oppressive. But a relaxed approach to dialogue will include the welcoming of some silence. It is often a devastating question to ask oneself, but it is sometimes important to ask it - 'In saying what I have in mind will I really improve on the silence?

Robert K. Greenleaf

Silence, Awkward, Mind

Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears (2002). “Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness”, p.41, Paulist Press

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There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity. The Christian intellect has no reason to be intimidated in the presense of later-stage modernity. Christianity has seen too many 'modern eras' to be cowed by this one.

Thomas Oden

Christian, Quality, Eras

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In solitude a dialogue always arises, because even in solitude there are always two.

Hannah

Two, Solitude, Arise

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One can feel the immense joy of Amy Hill Hearth's engagement in her first novel. It radiates through every scene and through every page. Sometimes, an exceptional writer finds an exceptional premise, and the result is a truly exceptional book. Such is the case with Miss Dreamsville...The writing is brilliant, especially the dialogue through which the characters are defined.

Philip K. Jason

Book, Writing, Character

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You must fight others, but through peace, and through dialogue, and through education.

Malala Yousafzai

Fighting, Taliban

"The time Malala left Jon Stewart speechless" by Matilda Battersby, www.independent.co.uk. February 11, 2015.

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The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God's call.

Pope Benedict XVI

People, Fruit, Praying

Pope Benedict XVI (2008). “Pope Benedict in America: The Full Texts of Papal Talks Given During His Apostolic Visit to the United States”, p.37, Ignatius Press

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In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken.

Pope Francis

Silence, Weapons, Language

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I loved working with Valerie. That was the most wonderful revelation to find that when we are on a set and we're playing our roles, we're like separated twins. We can almost finish each other's dialogue.

Mary Tyler Moore

Roles, Twins, Wonderful

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We can inspire others through witness so that one grows together in communicating. BUt the worst thing of all is religious proselytism, which paralyses: 'I am talking with you in order to persuade you.' No. Each person dialogues, starting with his and her own identity. The church grows by attracting, not proselytizing.

Pope Francis

Religious, Happy Life, Order

"GMA Hosts Thrilled By Pope's 'Fantastic' Call Not to Proselytize, Ignore Context" by Kyle Drennen, newsbusters.org. August 4, 2014.

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Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with other readers.

Leah Price

Book, Giants, Shoulders

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I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the psyche that are normally hidden from view.

Terence McKenna

Thinking, Views, Ego

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Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take. Sometimes your films turn out exactly as you want. Sometimes they don't. I spent a lot of my childhood on sets. I think as a joke, my father gave me a line of dialogue in each of his films during the worst moments of my puberty.

Jason Reitman

Growing Up, Father, Son

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Labels such as, 'evangelical', 'fundamental', 'charismatic', 'liberal' contribute to polarization and produce a climate of implied or outspoken distrust. Respectful dialogue becomes virtually impossible. What we desperately need to offset this disunity and distrust is a new and cleansing theology of communication.

Robert H. Schuller

Religious, Self Esteem, Communication

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