Dialogue Quotes - Page 6

• As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Moving, Cutting, Thinking

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• Interfaith dialogue is a must today, and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments, and giving precedence to common points, which far outnumber polemical ones.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Past, Giving, Today

  "Humanity Needs a Touch of Magical Interfaith Dialogue" by Arzu Kaya Uranli, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes.

  Sol Stein

  Writing, Views, Speech

  Sol Stein (2014). “Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies”, p.110, St. Martin's Press

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• Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't know but the other character does know.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Character, Doe

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• To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.

  Sol Stein

  Writing, Character, Needs

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• The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

  Michael Graves

  Ideas, Long, Architecture

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• Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.

  Robert Benton

  Meaningful, Years, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can hardly believe what these 12 caricatures [about Prophet Muhammad] have caused in the world. We Danes feel like we have been placed in a scene in the wrong movie. But I don't see the fight as a clash of civilizations. Rather, we must focus on avoiding exactly this type of conflict. We have to return to dialogue, to mutual understanding and to an acknowledgement of freedom of opinion.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Believe, Fighting, Civilization

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue.

  Adrien Brody

  Thinking, Hands, People

  Roundtable interview, www.ign.com. July 30, 2004.

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• A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Book, Reader

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• I think as actors we need to close read scripts and we need to fully understand the intricacies of dialogue as well as the symbolisms of what the actor wears and what they hold in their hand because that only adds more layers to the character.

  Masiela Lusha

  Character, Thinking, Hands

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I love drawing what the character is feeling, in my comics, with no dialogue.

  Vera Brosgol

  Character, Drawing, Feelings

  "Five questions for Vera Brosgol". Interview with Elissa Gershowitz and Katie Bircher, www.hbook.com. September 12, 2016.

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• Dialogue is not always the best way to show emotion, to show your thought process, or to reveal yourself, as a character.

  Mike Colter

  Character, Way, Emotion

  Source: collider.com

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• If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Thinking, Community

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• If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Interesting, Possibility, Abstract

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• People reflect themselves in the work and [it] becomes a tool for communication and dialogue. You bring it out here and you see people walking around taking photos, kids running, everyone being a part of it.

  Jeppe Hein

  Running, Communication, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] wanted to draw people in with a dialogue - whether it's a creative process or a social issue or innovation of some kind; whether it was how we told the stories or what stories we told. We produced some online videos.

  Zachary Quinto

  Issues, People, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I spent the better part of a week trying to figure out how to organize these stacks of 30 years of conversations and dialogues. I finally began clustering them in these different categories, and I ended up with the ones you listed.It's interesting to me the kinds of questions I haven't been called to wrestle with. For example, I don't know what this says, but I'm not asked a lot of political questions.

  Max Lucado

  Years, Interesting, Political

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• I read the script [of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] and went, "I haven't read anything this good, in a long time." I thought it was absolutely brilliant. The dialogue is so sparkling, smart and witty. You also have these insane, crazy characters, like energy sucking vampires and holistic assassins. It's all completely weird.

  Samuel Barnett

  Witty, Crazy, Smart

  Source: collider.com

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• Die Hard With A Vengeance shooting was a great time, because we had an interesting script. The first script was called Simon Says, and something was going on, because some days we'd get to work, but we wouldn't actually have dialogue. We would go to Bruce's Willis trailer, and they'd say, "Okay, you have to go from 168th Street to 97th Street today. We're going to do it in the cab, and Sam, you say this. Bruce, what do you want to say?" And that's how Bruce's "hey, Zeus!" thing came up.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Interesting, Today, Vengeance

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• I sincerely hope that the difficulties that are there in Iraq and Iran can be resolved, that Iraq will see a new era of hope in which its people will enjoy a full sovereignty.
  And also the problems that there is with Iran can be resolved through dialogue through giving diplomacy a chance.

  Manmohan Singh

  Iran, Iraq, People

  "Dr Manmohan Singh's interview with Charlie Rose". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.rediff.com. March 1, 2006.

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• I'm not going to Russia and tell them to go to hell and think - that's not the way things are done. You chip away at something and you hope that there will be dialogue and that the situation can get better. You don't just go in there with guns blazing and say well, to hell with you because they're going to say to hell with you and get out of the country.

  Elton John

  Country, Gun, Russia

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.

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• A lot of the reason why the debate is acrimonious is because of the 24/7 news cycles, blogs, and people being able to just throw something out there in order to get attention. And I'm not going be out there doing the same thing, trying to trash my successor or call attention to myself. I hope that's a positive contribution to the dialogue.

  George W. Bush

  Order, People, Trying

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• We need political leadership that will move the world away from war into solving its problems through dialogue and negotiation, to build friendship with people, which is not what we've had with this war on terror.

  Mairead Corrigan

  War, Moving, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• People always say, "Can writing be taught?" I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue, how to do character, but I can't teach you how to be a decent person, and I can't teach you how to have something to say.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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