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• If I felt we had alienated the Unionists, it would worry me because we've spent a great deal of time trying to open up discussion and dialogue with the Unionist Parties.

  Dick Spring

  Party, Worry, Trying

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• We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Afterlife, Want, Path

  "Today" on BBC Radio 4, news.bbc.co.uk. March 01, 2005.

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• The church must constantly promote dialogue.

  Claudio Hummes

  Church

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• You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

  Clive Owen

  Thinking, People, Lost Friendship

  "Interview:Clive Owen & Jude Law" by Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. December 10, 2004.

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• A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.

  Dorothy Fields

  Song, Moving, Unhappy

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• When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.

  Louis Malle

  Scripts, Stories, Difficult

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• Almost every scene, I re-think as Im about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time Im changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things.

  Chester Brown

  Thinking, Drawing, Different

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• What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

  Terri Windling

  Past, Giving, Interesting

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• I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

  Alex Winter

  Love, People, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

  Mike Figgis

  Musician, Singers, Way

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• Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Real, Community, Political

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• A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it.

  Claudio Hummes

  Jesus, Judging, Humanity

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• I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Drama, Writing, Perfection

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• I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Suggestions, Stories, Actors

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• I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.

  Steve Buscemi

  Writing, Stories, Structure

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2001.

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• There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Government, Community, Needs

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• To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

  Dirk Benedict

  Writing, College, Acting

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• I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page sunrise over the desert and masses of a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Sunrise, Desert, Pages

  Interview with Helen Keier, www.ign.com. February 10, 2001.

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• Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Marriage, Finals, Proposal

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• A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Mean, Political, Phases

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• If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Real, Fiction, Audience

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• A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

  David Mamet

  Movie, Able, Scripts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Children, Thinking, Only Child

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• I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

  Christina Ricci

  Hate, Reality, Actors

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• It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.

  Goran Persson

  Party, Europe, Wish

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