“My meetings with [Ahmed Chalabi] were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union and just kind of working through the rope line, and he might have come with a group of leaders. But I haven't had any extensive conversations with him.” ThinkingKindMeanStatesMightLinesLeaderGroupsHavensMetsConversationUnionsMeetingsRope Author:George W. Bush
“I was quite intimidated by Ralph Fiennes. I didn't really talk to him while I was doing Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and the only thing I did with him was when he stepped on my head. Then I went to this play and he was there. And this girl said, “you've worked with Ralph Fiennes haven't you, Robert?” and I was like, “well, no...” and Ralph said, “yes, I stepped on your head.” And that was the extent of our conversation.” WellsSaidPlayGirlFireHavensConversationHarry PotterPottersIntimidatedThis Girl Author:Robert Pattinson
“Affairs can be powerful detonators. They can invigorate a marriage that's flat, jolt people out of years of complacency. Fear of loss rekindles desire, makes people have conversations they haven't had in years, takes them out of their contrived illusion of safety.” PeopleYearsDesireLossPowerfulHavensConversationIllusionSafetyAffairFlatsComplacency Author:Esther Perel
“The work is different in the sense that I haven't had to travel round the world raising money, or work from the genesis of the project. But the collaboration feels clear always, it's sort of my drug, I'm in it for the conversation. The conversation's the most important part of it.” WorldFeelsImportantDifferentClearHavensDrugConversationProjectsRoundsCollaborationGenesisRaising Money Author:Tilda Swinton
“This is not a movie about smelling the urine! It's another kind of movie." Volker Schlöndorff got Billy Wilder to agree to these conversations - you can buy it - because Volker spoke German at times. And he said to Billy Wilder: "What is in your mind?" And he said: "If you're going to try to tell the truth to the audience, you'd better be funny or they'll kill you." And I haven't forgotten that.” IfsTryingMindKindSaidAudienceHavensConversationAgreeForgottenTelling The TruthSpokesWilder Author:Dustin Hoffman
“I carry condoms in my purse, even though I haven't had sex in a long time. I'm hoping for luck! And I carry them so I can give them to other people who might want or need them, or who might want to have a conversation.” PeopleWantNeedsGivingLongI CanMightSexHavensConversationLong TimeLuckPursesCondom Author:Sharon Stone
“I've long suspected that one of the reasons why human beings haven't yet figured out how to carry on a conversation with bottlenosed porpoises, African gray parrots, et al. in their own language is quite simply that we're terrified of what they might say to us - not least because it's entirely possible that they'd be right.” HumansLongReasonMightLanguageHuman BeingsHavensConversationReason WhyAlsGrayTerrifiedParrotsPorpoises Author:John Michael Greer
“We always speak very bluntly with father [Donald Trump]. But in the end I think the things that he's saying are things that need to be said. They're conversations that need to be had. There conversations that haven't been had.” ThinkingNeedsSaidEndsFatherSpeakHavensTrumpConversation Author:Donald Trump, Jr.
“I spent the better part of a week trying to figure out how to organize these stacks of 30 years of conversations and dialogues. I finally began clustering them in these different categories, and I ended up with the ones you listed.It's interesting to me the kinds of questions I haven't been called to wrestle with. For example, I don't know what this says, but I'm not asked a lot of political questions.” KnowsTryingYearsKindDifferentPoliticalInterestingWeekHavensFiguresExampleConversationDialogueCategoriesOrganize Author:Max Lucado
“I think [there's] the opportunity for - I almost said President Clinton, and soon I will - but for Hillary Clinton to address that, and for the public sphere to address that in a way that they haven't. We started a conversation in the last few years on race that we desperately needed to have.” ThinkingWayYearsSaidLastsOpportunityPresidentRaceHavensNeededConversationClintonAddressesSpheresPresident Clinton Author:Joss Whedon