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I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.
I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way.
To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.
I don't like going to the movies with people that talk a lot. They want to have a conversation or something.
I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.
That's probably the most boring conversation you could hear - an actor talk about politics. I won't go there.
You know, I'm trying to chase rings, and that's all I'm about. So that's where the conversation stops for me.
I have this very strange relationship with my work, which is that it's like a conversation between me and it.
My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.
I don't know how me having a conversation with Tomi Lahren all of a sudden turned into me hating black women.
I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.
I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
Leave it to an Obama supporter to bring up Iraq in the middle of a conversation about the swine flu pandemic.
I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation.
All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence.
Famous people like to choose friends who won't go around repeating their conversations and details about them.
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.
I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.
Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.
No other practice will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects.
The long-term value proposition for cellphone companies isn't just voice conversation - it's transfer of data.
The evolution of art is not only driven by artists, but by a conversation between the artists and the audience.
Talk often, but never long: in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers.
It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.
God, just shoot me the day I start making music you can just put on in the car and have a conversation over it.
The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.
Don't let other people's conversations about what you're doing or you've done be part of your own conversation.
I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.
Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.
No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.
With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.
Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.
I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.
I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.
If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.
My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
I've always hung out with people older than me, with my parents' friends, because I appreciated the conversation.
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.
Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)
'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.
How often one talks not to hear what the other person has got to say, but to hear what one has got to say oneself!
Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on.
I've enjoyed the conversations that we've had. [Donald Trump] is somebody who I think is not lacking in confidence.
Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.