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If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.
I had a great conversation with Trent Reznor. Trent said, "I'd have a sixpack, too, if I didn't write my own music!"
Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.
Maybe it's impossible to spend time with Patrick Stewart and not have the conversation move to the extraterrestrial.
I used to love 'The Late Late Show.' It was nice to be able to be up late at night and see an extended conversation.
The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.
A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
Our gazes met. It seemed an entire conversation took place in that one glance. Each of us saw what we needed to know.
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
Every conversation I have almost always revolves around, you know, personnel and policy focused on producing results.
Anytime you've got something that can take you into the political realm then you've opened up the conversation a lot.
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
Where do most go to complain about a company/brand? TWITTER. Conversations are happening whether you are there or not.
That's the point, to get the people who wouldn't otherwise think to eavesdrop on a conversation that involves science.
God knew where he was, but he asked so as to start a conversation with Adam and avoid startling him too much to reply.
My life is 24 hours talking about football. For me, it is every conversation, every action. It is my life, my passion.
If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'
Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
I feel like every conversation with my father is like an M. Night Shyamalan movie; 90 minutes of build-up to no payoff.
The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.
This is one of the last industries where the subject is off limits. Nobody’s comfortable in engaging in a conversation.
There's nothing more exciting than that conversation you have with a live audience. It's the best feeling in the world.
I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
I don't know whether what I do is art. But making things out in the world and having as many conversations as possible.
The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.
We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement.
The most radical thing we can do is connect people to one another. That starts conversations toward a vision for change.
We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.
I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting.
I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.
Beauty has always been an element of discussion for black women, whether or not we were the ones having the conversation.
As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.
There was never a moment when I was like, 'I'm going to enter the public conversation on the importance of female nudity.'
People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.
I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.
Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.
In solitude, we find ourselves; we prepare ourselves to come to conversation with something to say that is authentic, ours.
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
Coffee is a product favouring sociability, friendship, and conversation and it should always be consumed with someone else.
I don't know what drives me, but I wake up in the morning, and I want to participate in the creative cultural conversation.
Now I'm in the business and I do have to have these awkward conversations about how I look, how I talk. But I'm still here.
Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.
When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.
I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.