Dialogue Quotes - Page 9

• One of my favorite literary theorists, Mikhail Bakhtin, wrote that the defining characteristic of the novel is its unprecedented level of "heteroglossia" - the way it brings together so many different registers of language. He doesn't mean national languages, but rather the sublanguages we all navigate between every day: high language, low language, everything. I think there's something really powerful about the idea of the novel as a space that can bring all these languages together - not just aggregate them, like the Internet is so good at doing, but bring them into a dialogue.

  Elif Batuman

  Powerful, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It doesn't upset me when people are annoyed or bothered by what may seem to them as a redundancy of topics about blacks and Latinos. As a reporter I welcome those types of conversations and dialogues. Even when it's uncomfortable, it's still necessary.

  Soledad O'Brien

  People, Annoyed, Upset

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• When our founders created America, it was in the age of the printing press, when individuals could freely join the conversation. And that robust, democratic dialogue more often than not lifted up the best available evidence and asserted what was more likely to be true than not.

  Al Gore

  America, Age, Individual

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As recently as the '70s, people were forced to see information that they didn't agree with in newspapers and the like. Now there is so much information you really can build your own walled garden that just has the stuff that reinforces your view. I think it applies to all of us. People are really going into these separate camps, and that's the big social challenge in this age of too much information. How do we crack that and create a common dialogue?

  Paul Saffo

  Garden, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I remain optimistic that ultimately free speech and a free press where individuals have access to the dialogue will have a self-correcting quality.

  Al Gore

  Optimistic, Self, Quality

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Just as it wouldn't be right to only to have an economic dialogue with China, equally you shouldn't restrict your dialogue solely to issues around, say, human rights. You can raise all those issues, and that is what reflects a mature discussion. So I don't think essentially we have to choose between being partners in China's economic development and being proud defenders of British values.

  George Osborne

  Thinking, Issues, Rights

  Source: www.economist.com

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• I feel that all the messages in the Conversations with God dialogues came from God. And many of them have been considered radical.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Messages, Conversations With God, Radical

  Source: www.spiritualmediablog.com

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• Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and poetic and it's dialogue, chances are that's a Thomas Harris quote of some kind that's kind of been repurposed or reinterpreted or re-imagined somehow. That's where a lot of that poetry comes from.

  Bryan Fuller

  Book, Dragons, Red

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Most of my writing is an effort, one way or another, to figure something out about myself, and often when I read dialogue between my characters I recognize it as a discussion between two aspects of my own personality, aspects which are too often at odds.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Character, Writing, Odds

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Expression is never considered a given, and it is in fact maybe not what's most interesting about making art. Making art, since 1960 or something, is many things: it's a way of doing philosophy, it's a way of opening a dialogue, it's a way of putting a fact or a question out into the world, or a way of drawing people into new relationships, or a way of interrogating history. It's all these other sorts of strategies or techniques or processes that are really interesting and really valuable.

  Kurt Ralske

  Art, Philosophy, New Relationship

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if I can get them and grab them by the scruff of the neck and say, you can do this, and if I see that fire in their eyes, that's when I think I know a writer.

  Colum McCann

  Writing, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I had a lot of fantasies about being an architect when I was young, and I think I still do. On a visceral level, I'm very intellectually and emotionally attracted to acknowledging how space functions in our lives, both in terms of pleasure and in terms of control, and in terms of all those factors that form a life. I'm also very anxious and maybe repulsed by how superficial that whole dialogue can become.

  Tom Burr

  Thinking, Space, Levels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think sometimes younger people - not necessarily thinkers and intellectuals and the like, but people who are on social media and who are not as informed as journalists or professional thinkers - may get a bit, you know, impatient with the necessity of sustained thinking, sustained argumentation, sustained dialogue.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Thinking, Media, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm writing as I'm reading. I'm constantly already engaged in dialogue with the critics. None of these are my ideas solely. They are my form of entering into a dialogue with ideas that are already out there, and calibrating how much sense these make to me or not. I want to be responsible to the work that has already been done.

  Douglas A. Martin

  Reading, Writing, Done

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• When you direct the dialogue you can be precise, but with a song as a director you're more like a football coach. You can say one, two things in the beginning and then the actor has to follow what happens.

  Maren Ade

  Football, Song, Coaches

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't understand choreographers who say they don't care about the audience or that they would be happy to present their works non-publicly. I think dance is a form of communication and the goal is to dialogue with the audience. If an audience member tells me they cried or that the dance moved them to think about their own journey or a family member's, then the work is successful.

  Dana Tai Soon Burgess

  Communication, Successful, Journey

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you've got Jews and Christians, Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus removing graffiti from buildings, or getting drug dealers off the street, that's side by side. When you do that, you take it from the very elevated level of interfaith dialogue to the street level of neighbors. You get them working side by side, and they become friends. Friendship sometimes counts for more than interfaith agreement or understanding. Friendship is deeply human.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Christian, Drug, Understanding

  Source: sojo.net

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• Liberation is an interesting word, because you can be liberated from external things, and also from your internal dialogue.

  Goldie Hawn

  Interesting, Liberation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• America, we weaken our ties when we allow our political dialogue to become so corrosive that people of good character aren't even willing to enter into public service; so coarse with rancor that Americans with whom we disagree are seen not just as misguided but as malevolent. We weaken those ties when we define some of us as more American than others, when we write off the whole system as inevitably corrupt, and when we sit back and blame the leaders we elect without examining our own role in electing them.

  Barack Obama

  Writing, Character, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Comics can really help kids become confident readers. They can teach kids the fundamentals - inference, tracking from left to right, learning how dialogue works. I want everyone to know what useful tools comics can be in helping and encouraging our kids to read.

  Jennifer L. Holm

  Kids, Helping, Teach

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Dialogue that's distinctive, funny, peculiar, and specific is the main thing that makes me want to get involved with a film to begin with.

  Terry Zwigoff

  Film, Get Involved

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Trying to execute that kind of intricate staging in the West Wing at the same time you're doing intricate dialogue - it's like patting your head and rubbing your stomach!

  Rob Lowe

  Trying, Kind

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• I got into dialogue because my parents began taking me to see plays from when I was very young. Too young, often, to understand the play I was watching: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf when I was nine years old; That Championship Season when I was ten years old. But I loved the sound of dialogue; it sounded like music to me and I wanted to imitate that sound.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Parent, Championship

  "The Definitive History Of The West Wing: Part 2. Inauguration". www.empireonline.com.

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• There are a zillion possibilities that you can do on a piece of paper; there is no rational way to choose. So you have let something else speak... so I can't really remember which comes first, the dialogue or the pictures. It comes from that place where it sort of all comes together on its own.

  Gabrielle Bell

  Together, Remember, Speak

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Mexico is a country we Americans should be cultivating a positive dialogue about how we work together to make ourselves more secure and more competitive vis-a-vis the rest of the world.

  Roger Noriega

  Country, Together, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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