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• The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.

  Daniel Goleman

  Book, Overcoming, Groups

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• Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.

  Bill Mumy

  Running, Giving, Wife

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I developed this dialogue in rehab, this dialogue with God, and every day I talk to God.

  Andy Dick

  Spiritual, Talking, Rehab

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

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• Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Arguing, Century, Composer

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• The church must constantly promote dialogue.

  Claudio Hummes

  Church

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

  Christina Ricci

  Hate, Reality, Actors

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• A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Mean, Political, Phases

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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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• 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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• I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.

  George Carey

  Thinking, September 11, Spurs

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