Dialogue Quotes - Page 27

• Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so heated, that conversation is almost impossible.

  Paula Vogel

  Impossible, Theater, Conversation

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• If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.

  Mark Foley

  Common Vision, Turkeys, Leader

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• We have to be in a listening mode: it is about dialogue, about listening to what the others have to say, about cooperating in the best way possible. These are the values and principles that we put forward.

  Pierre Vimont

  Europe, Listening, Principles

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• Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Thinking, Media, Healthy

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• The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

  Richard Rorty

  Beauty, Writing, Long

  Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.127, Cambridge University Press

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• I believe you shouldn't force the audience's interpretation of a character or a story. The more you explain things, the less intriguing and imaginable they are for viewers. . . . Film to me, in its essence, in its ultimate nature, is silent. Music and dialogue are there to fill what is lacking in the image. But you should be able to tell the story with moving pictures alone. For my next project, though, I'd like to make the kind of film where the characters blabber all the time.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Believe, Moving, Character

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• Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Real, Writing, Spontaneity

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• Listen to us rather than to Arkady Mamontov talking about us. Don't twist and distort everything we say. Let us enter into dialogue and contact with the country, which is ours too, not just Putin's and the Patriarch's. Like Solzhenitsyn, I believe that in the end, words will crush concrete. Solzhenitsyn wrote, "the word is more sincere than concrete, so words are not trifles. Once noble people mobilize, their words will crush concrete."

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Crush, Country, Believe

  "Here's What Russian Punk Band Pussy Riot Said At The Conclusion Of Their Controversial Blasphemy Trial". Nadezhda Tolokonnikova's closing speech at the Pussy Riot trial in Russia, www.businessinsider.com. August 10, 2012.

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• With a click of the Post Comment button, Netizens can quickly bring down the level of dialogue. Bloggers lob zingers, commenters trade barbs, and bullies target kids in the cyber schoolyard. Mudslinging - a time-honored political tradition - thrives on the Web.

  Willow Bay

  Kids, Bully, Political

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• It is said that stone is the affection of old men. That may be so. It is the most challenging to work. A dialogue ensues – of chance no chance, mistakes no mistakes. No erasing or reproduction is possible, at least in the way I work, leaving nature’s mark. It is unique and final.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Mistake, Men, Unique

  Isamu Noguchi (1999). “The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it’s always the same beginning, and the same ending.

  Martin Amis

  Twists, Looks, Fluidity

  FaceBook post by Martin Amis from Aug 19, 2011

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• I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Dream, Trying, Done

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• If he [the Talib] comes, what would you do Malalala? If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there will be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat otherswith cruelty...you must fight others but through peace, through dialogue and through educationthen I'll tell him [the Talib] how important education is and that I even want education for your children as well that's what I want to tell you, now do what you want.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Children, Fighting, Shoes

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• There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.

  Hans Kung

  Nations

  Hans Kung's Address at the opening of the Exhibit on the World's Religions at Santa Clara University, March 31, 2005.

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• But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there may dawn in him the presentiment of a world-wide dialogue with the world-happening that steps up to him even in his environment, which consists partially of things. Or do you seriously think that the giving and taking of signs halts on the threshold of that business where an honest and open spirit is found?

  Martin Buber

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  Lev Shestov, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber (1969). “Great twentieth century Jewish philosophers: Shestov, Rosenzweig, Buber, with selections from their writings”

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• This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge of the recesses of the human psyche. By masterful juxtaposition of evocative images, poetry, and selected quotes from scholars, Flesh and Blood seems to engage both the right and left hemispheres in an unprecedented dialogue. The result is a multi-dimensional, almost holographic picture of the primordial foundations of the human mind.

  Stanislav Grof

  Book, Unique, Blood

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• Games are not about being told things. If you want to tell people things, write a book or make a movie. Games are dialogues - and dialogue requires both parties to take the floor once in a while

  Warren Spector

  Party, Book, Writing

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• My hope is that my personal testimony can help in some way to not only
  advance the dialogue and approve Referendum 74, but also to help shape a
  culture of belonging in which ALL people are equal.

  Macklemore

  People, Culture, Shapes

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• One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.

  John Wayne

  Twenties, Looks, Lines

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.50, Taylor Trade Publications

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• I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitized and easier screen dialogues, in much the same way as killing, skinning and butchering an animal to eat has been replaced by the convenience of packages of meat on the supermarket shelf… Perhaps future generations will recoil with similar horror at the messiness, unpredictability and immediate personal involvement of a three-dimensional, real-time interaction.

  Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield

  Real, Animal, Giving

  "Scientist: Social Networking Sites Harming Kids Brains", www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2009.

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• Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for.

  Ken Bruen

  Height, Tarantino, Quentin

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• So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.

  Jack Markell

  Opportunity, Two, People

  "POLITICO interview: Gov. Jack Markell". Interview with Michael Falcone, www.politico.com. October 29, 2009.

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• Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes - how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?

  Gore Verbinski

  Different, Lines, Digital

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• I’m more interested in a photography that is ‘unfinished’ - a photography that is suggestive and can trigger a conversation or dialogue. There are pictures that are closed, finished, to which there is no way in.

  Paolo Pellegrin

  Photography, Way, Triggers

  "Open and Closed Photographs" by Peter Levi, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs. To put our beliefs on hold is to cease to exist as ourselves for a moment -- and that is not easy ... but it is the only way to learn what it might feel like to be someone else and the only way to start the dialogue.

  Lisa Delpit

  Eye, Ears, Might

  Lisa Delpit (2013). “Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom”, p.55, The New Press

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