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• People in the eastern regions [of Ukaraine] are talking about federalisation, and Kiev has at long last started talking about de-centralisation. Order in the country can only be restored through dialogue and democratic procedures, rather than with the use of armed force, tanks and aircraft.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Order, Talking

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I am ready to have dialogue with the concerned parties once the nation is calm and the political temperatures are lowered enough for constructive and productive engagement.

  Mwai Kibaki

  Party, Political, Engagement

  "Kibaki 'Open to Opposition Talks'". news.bbc.co.uk. January 03, 2008.

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• America can restore its strengths as the world-respected land of opportunity by returning to open-society principles. An open society invests in people and new ideas, rewards talent and hard work, values dialogue and learns from dissent, operates to high standards with transparent information, looks for common ground, sees problems as opportunities for creative change, and encourages those who are fortunate to help others get the same chance, because service is the highest ideal. With such standards in mind, America the Beautiful can return to its admired role as America the Principled.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Beautiful, Hard Work, Helping Others

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2007). “America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again”, p.8, Crown Business

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• A piece of literature can be many things but first of all it must capture its audience. You need to seduce people, entice them into a world of beauty and horror, light and shadow, of passion, of romance, of mystery. That's the magic of it. Beyond that, of course, you can open a dialogue about the ideas which interest you, but first of all you absolutely must get inside people's minds.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Passion, Ideas, Light

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• My paintings have an ongoing dialogue with photography. There are many painters who would say the same, I'm sure. The difference is that I'm thinking more about the temporal aspect of photography, rather than the visual.

  James Nares

  Photography, Thinking, Differences

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• A chef is a chef, a cook is a cook; a lorry driver is a lorry driver and a designer is a designer. I've never heard anyone say that Philippe Starck is a chef. The important thing is dialogue. If I said to Norman Foster that he was a chef he'd say "No", but he might have a dialogue with chefs. People have said to me for many years that I'm not a chef and that I'm an artist instead, but I always say, "No, I'm a chef." I just have dialogues with designers.

  Ferran Adria

  Artist, Years, People

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• An ideology critique that does not clearly accept its identity as satire can, however, easily be transformed from an instrument in the search for truth into one of dogmatism. All too often, it interferes with the capacity for dialogue instead of opening up new paths for it.

  Peter Sloterdijk

  Opening Up, Identity, Doe

  "Critique of Cynical Reason". Book by Peter Sloterdijk, 1983.

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• With Batman&Robin, the fourth entry in the recent Batman movie series, the profitable franchise appears poised to take a nosedive. This film, which places yet another actor in the batsuit, has all the necessary hallmarks of a sorry sequel - pointless, plodding plotting; asinine action; clueless, comatose characterization; and dumb dialogue. Batman&Robin moves at a dizzying pace, yet goes absolutely nowhere.

  James Berardinelli

  Sorry, Moving, Clueless

  "Batman and Robin (United States, 1997)". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net.

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• Die Hard represents the class of modern action pictures and the standard by which they must be judged. Few films falling into the "mindless entertainment" genre have as much going for them as this movie. Not only is it a thrill-a-minute ride, but it has one of the best film villains in recent memory, a hero everyone can relate to, dialogue that crackles with wit, and a lot of very impressive pyrotechnics.

  James Berardinelli

  Memories, Hero, Fall

  "Die Hard (United States, 1988)". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net.

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• Although the term dialogue was really a euphemism for scientists trying to kill each other, this format worked very well.

  Joao Magueijo

  Trying, Scientist, Term

  João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA

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• Still - and for all Obama's heavy hinting to the contrary - Islam has no "human rights." The ideas of individual rights and the dignity of man are distinctly Western, an outgrowth of the Enlightenment. And while dialogue is dignified; dhimmitude is not, even if it achieves a desired, if temporary, effect.

  Ilana Mercer

  Men, Rights, Ideas

  "B. Hussein in History Wonderland" by Ilana Mercer, www.ilanamercer.com. August 21, 2009.

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• Think of lab rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' conducted on the teli. Each rat runs with a designated, neatly bifurcated (Republican or Democratic) political orthodoxy. Each is a 'maze-bright' rat, and not the possessor and giver of any truth.

  Ilana Mercer

  Running, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Left and Right Bamboozling You on Benghazi". www.wnd.com. January 09, 2014.

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• For me, to represent people who represent the future of Canada and the great challenges we will face over the coming decades - this is where I wanted to start. I'm a teacher; I'm a convenor; I'm a gatherer; I'm someone who reaches out to people and is deeply interested in what they have to say. And people see that I'm not faking it. I'm actually genuinely committed to this dialogue that we're opening up, and this understanding that needs to happen in order to be an effective MP.

  Justin Trudeau

  Teacher, Order, Mps

  "Trudeau Wins Montreal Riding Nomination". www.cbc.ca. April 29, 2007.

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• The American Jewish Committee has pioneered the German-Jewish-American dialogue.

  Klaus Kinkel

  Committees

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• Two men with a camera, thoughtfully observing the visual cacophony of one major thoroughfare and the complicated interplay of its history, its present, and the certainty of change, have laid the groundwork for a dialogue and a vision that reaches farther than human eyes can see.

  Vicki Goldberg

  Eye, Men, Two

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• To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'

  John Sayles

  Character, Plot, Needs

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• If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God. Yet it seems that there is nothing in the world so hard to discover as this. The theory refutes itself.

  Joseph McCabe

  Real, Drama, Men

  "The Psychology of Religion". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1927.

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• I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd. I didn't have a ton of academic skills. It wasn't until I was in high school that I was like, "I guess I like writing dialogue." So that's how I got into it.

  Mindy Kaling

  Writing, School, Kids

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 4, 2007.

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• Every time I do a movie, I'm reading the script, or if it's something I have coming up, I'm reading the script, and I just spend hours and hours and days and weeks and months going over the script and just writing a lot of different ideas down, finding a little dialogue or just coming up with ideas for scenes and moments and all that kind of stuff.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Reading, Writing, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• Since I started making films, I've been a nut for dialogue. When I first saw Star Wars when I was 12 years old, I came home and recited all of the lines from it. Before I talked about Death Stars exploding and Tie Fighters I was talking about how funny Princess Leia was and how sarcastic Han Solo was. So to me that's always the most important thing, and I love hearing great actors say great lines.

  Bryan Singer

  Sarcastic, Stars, War

  Source: collider.com

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• On the set, everybody is different, so you have to deal with different sensibilities. I don't have a method. Usually, I try to have a good connection with the actor that I'm filming. Even a guy who's there with two lines of dialogue, I always try to have a connection with the guy I'm filming, just to make it into a nice, enjoyable moment.

  Quentin Dupieux

  Nice, Two, Guy

  "Quentin Dupieux Talks WRONG COPS, Fast-Paced Shoots, and His Secret Project with Marilyn Manson". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 23, 2013.

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• I really enjoy the direct dialogue with the fans. I'm very cognizant of my audience. I'm a trained storyteller and entertainer, and I know I wouldn't be able to work at the level I work at if people didn't enjoy what I did.

  Elizabeth Banks

  People, Fans, Levels

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 18, 2010.

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• It's really fun doing scenes with people when there's no written dialogue because you're really listening to each other, you're playing off each other, because that's all you have as a guide.

  Sebastian Silva

  Fun, People, Listening

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I don't mind that if I ever star in movies, they'll likely be mine. That's okay, because my great role models - Woody Allen, even Tyler Perry, who is actually one of my role models, even if that seems kind of strange - they do that themselves. And it's great. They build empires, and they're known as having their own voice. I think it's 20 times more fun to act on a set where I feel the freedom to change the dialogue.

  Mindy Kaling

  Stars, Fun, Thinking

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2011.

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• In dialogue, individuals gain insights that simply could not be achieved individually.

  Peter Senge

  Gains, Individual, Insight

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.170, Random House

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