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“Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.”

Giving May Minutes Expression Conversation Lifetime Repeats Superficial Vacuity

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)

“Behind every communication problem is a sweaty ten-minute conversation that you don't want to have.”

Want Problem Behinds Minutes Communication Ten Conversation Communication Problems

Author:Gay Hendricks

“A lot of us simply disengaged from politics altogether, but then we woke up and went wow, wait a minute. Why does that insane conversation get to dominate? Who made those people the creators of the conversation? And how can we start a new one?”

People Doe Made Waiting Minutes Conversation Creator Insane Wow

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.”

Long Has Beens Plans Minutes Fool Conversation Disappear Perceive Troublesome Tiresome

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“I'm definitely more talented than most of the guys I know. A lot of guys who just want to have sex will sit with the same woman and try all night. I'm able to look at a woman, have a five-minute conversation with her, and tell if it's a waste of time or not. I figure things out a lot faster.”

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Author:Tyrese Gibson

“Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.”

Thinking Humans Book Three Asks Minutes Subjects Ignorance Conversation Tables Boredom Thoughtful Dull Speakers Shocking Emphasis Human Thought Table Of Contents

Author:Stendhal

“Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch.”

Men Given Minutes Ten Conversation Men And Women Barriers Amazing Things Intersex Cultural Barriers

Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“I am often attracted to people with whom I could not hold a five minute conversation.”

People Five Minutes Conversation Attraction Five Minutes

Author:Mason Cooley

“Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those who want to bring along two or three friends; drunks; monologists; those who stay until three o'clock in the morning; those who think that conversation means having an argument; those who take a high moral tone; those who are stupid, ugly, or dull. Enforcement of these rules will enable one to eat alone every night in comfort.”

“Even five minute meaningful conversations with other people not only fuel us in the moment but also build up a reserve of social capital so that when hard times strike, we can draw down on that bank account.”

People Hard Moments Social Five Minutes Conversation Draws Accounts Strikes Meaningful Hard Times Fuel Reserves Five Minutes Bank Accounts Social Capital Meaningful Conversations

Author:Michelle Gielan

“I fell in love with the classical crossover genre when I was on AGT. I found out that I could use the microphone to establish a deeper intimacy with the audience. I did not portray an opera character; I was my true self. I would sing a four-to-five minute piece for the audience and then I could talk to them and say "Hi" to them! I would not need to act out scenes where my character was dying from tuberculosis or killing somebody else on stage, I could have a nice conversation with them.”

“Most of the comics that I talk to I've never talked to for more than ten minutes ever. So 95 percent of the time you're really hearing the first conversation between me and that guy on the podcast.”

Firsts Guy Minutes Ten Conversation Percent Hearing That Guy

Author:Marc Maron

“For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes about cake for twenty minutes, I have to make sure my audience is interested and following where I'm going.”

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Author:Jim Gaffigan

“[If] you want to learn something about somebody, get into a fistfight. You'll learn more in five minutes than you will in five weeks of conversations. It's basic.”

Ifs Want Five Week Minutes Conversation Five Minutes

Author:David Ayer

“It does not take long to tell where a man's treasure is. In fifteen minutes' conversation with most men, you can tell whether their treasures are on the earth or in Heaven.”

Men Long Doe Earth Heaven Minutes Conversation Treasure Fifteen

Book:Heaven

Source: Heaven

“When I was about 17, I didn't speak. English was like a foreign language. I'd just grunt. The only time I talked was when I said my lines on set. I didn't speak to any of the actors or anything. Then one day Alison from the Corrie press office started talking to me in the green room and I just decided to talk back. She ran upstairs to tell everyone that she'd just had a 10-minute conversation with me like it was the most unbelievable thing in the world. I just woke up one day and thought, 'I'm going to talk today'. I've really made up for lost time since.”

“The problem with movies and books is they make evil look glamorous, exciting, when it's no such thing. It's boring and it's depressing and it's stupid. Criminals are all after cheap thrills and easy money, and when they get them, all they want is more of the same, over and over. They're shallow, empty, boring people who couldn't give you five minutes of interesting conversation if you had the piss-poor luck to be at a party full of them. Maybe some can be monkey-clever, some of the time, but they aren't hardly ever smart.”

Source: From the Corner of His Eye: A Novel

“In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that. The Holocaust and the consequences of it. Well, I find it terribly boring, predictable and unimportant, because what matters about literature is esthetic achievement.”

Wells Matter America Literature Minutes Morality Conversation Achievement Ethics Consequence Boring Holocaust What Matters Discourse Predictable Unimportant Degenerates

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“It's an ethical pact I've made with myself and with the reader - not to invent. And when I can't remember, I say I can't remember. I'm just appalled by the memoirs published by people who regurgitate dialogue, conversations from when they were small children, and they go on for three or four pages. I can't even remember what we said to each other ten minutes ago! How can I remember what was said sixty years ago? It's not possible.”

People Years Children Made Said I Can Remember Three Four Minutes Goes On Reader Ten Conversation Pages Years Ago Memoir Dialogue Ethical Sixty Small Child Pact

Author:Paul Auster

“People who just wanted to make it work and knew it was going to be a real challenge. We were on the beach the first day and Donald [Sutherland] and I are playing best friends our whole lives. We met each other for 10 seconds the night before and we're sitting on a beach lining up a shot that we shoot a few minutes later, never having had a conversation with each other and then end up going skinny dipping in the Pacific Ocean buck-ass naked, not knowing who the other person is.”

“I've had that conversation! "You had a minute! Why didn't you do that?" So if husbands could read our minds that would be great.”

Ifs Mind Would Be Minutes Husband Conversation

Author:Mila Kunis

“What you hear in focus groups and conversations, people will give you 20 minutes of rage about how the borders are out of control. But then you start saying, practically, what are we going to do about it? What are we going to do about the 11 million here? What are we going to do to get some workers we need for the farms? Then people start having a normal conversation.”

People Needs Giving Millions Focus Groups Minutes Conversation Normal Workers Rage Borders Farms Focus Groups

Author:David Brooks

“I actually had that conversation with [Channel 4 Chief Creative Officer] Jay Hunt. We were at a bit of a crisis point. I'd written a totally different script - about war, basically - that got rejected at the last minute for various reasons. The whole of the series was in doubt. I said, "Well, there is one other idea ["National Anthem"]."”

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