Dialogue Quotes - Page 29

• I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.

  David Benioff

  Writing, Thinking, Way

  Interview with Jason Bateman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.

  Fred Frith

  Years, Musician, Firsts

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• I think “The Book of Mormon” has made that difference in its field. It changed the game. It’s something that 20 years from now people will still be talking about, hopefully. That’s my goal as an artist, as a creator, as a work for hire, is to choose projects that make people think, make people talk, and make people interested in having a dialogue.

  Josh Gad

  Book, Artist, Thinking

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 13, 2013.

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• It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.

  Victor Garber

  People, Trying, World

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

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• I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.

  Henry Hopper

  Robots, Want, Explosions

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• People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we have not engaged in.

  Eric Holder

  Thinking, Talking, Issues

  "Holder: Still need for frank talk on race" by, www.politico.com. July 11, 2010.

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• When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream to ask for changes.

  Jill Hennessy

  Dream, Say Anything, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• China pays a great deal of attention to the Korean nuclear issue. We stand for achieving denuclearization of the peninsula in a peaceful way through dialogue and consultation to maintain peace and stability of the peninsula and Northeast Asia.

  Hu Jintao

  Issues, Peaceful, Nuclear

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue.

  Josh Holloway

  Reading, Who I Am, Sometimes

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• Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors it's the purest way to tell a story. It's about creating images that tell a story and you don't need dialogue for that.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Creating, Needs, Stories

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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• If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Trying, Stories, Actors

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• The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, Emotion, Reason

  "Parables of anarchy". Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2005.

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• Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be in some sort of an unpragmatic dialogue with my neighbors.

  Etgar Keret

  Strong, Wish, Want

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• I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Player, Voice, Lakes

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• What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Thinking, Natural

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

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• I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.

  Jim Leach

  Uplifting, Thinking, America

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• So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric.

  John Podesta

  Real, Thinking, People

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• I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.

  Todd Phillips

  Thinking, Directors, Tools

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

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• In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.

  Jeff Raikes

  Views, Years, Focus

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• I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story's larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.

  Ron Rash

  Decision, Stories, Dozen

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• A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

  Ali Smith

  Book, Argument, Proof

  "Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks". www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

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• The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.

  Garth Stein

  Art, Book, Inspiration

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• I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

  Lorene Scafaria

  School, Thinking, Pages

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

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• I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Character, Ideas

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• Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Being Positive, Dialect

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