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“I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.”

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“Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner. No one was quick with a question, no matter how important, and no one was pressed for an answer. A pause giving time for thought was the truly courteous way of beginning and conducting a conversation. Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and his granting a space of silence to the speech-maker and his own moment of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regard for the rule that, "thought comes before speech."”

“Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.”

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Author:Susan Jacoby

“For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a dream come true. These are the kinds of things that we sit around talking to each other about in our dusty libraries. To see these conversations take place in popular culture is the best thing that could have ever happened.”

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Author:Reza Aslan

“Is so interesting, is that when you're blindfolded and you're talking to somebody the conversation goes to places that it would never go if you could see the other person's reaction. You start talking about very intimate things. It's such an interesting experience.”

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Author:Fernando Meirelles

“All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.”

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Author:Ada Leverson

“A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.”

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Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance possible between periods.”

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Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.”

Wish Talking Subjects Conversation I Am What I Am

Author:Ryan Giggs

“What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.”

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Author:William Glasser

“talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.”

Littles Social Talking Greater Too Much Conversation Faults Talking Too Much

Book:Book of common sense etiquette

Source: Book of common sense etiquette

“I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.”

People Doe Interest Talking Conversation Unwilling

Book:BRING ME A UNICORN

Source: BRING ME A UNICORN

“One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.”

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Book:Everybody's Autobiography

Source: Everybody's Autobiography

“Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.”

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Book:Plutarch's Complete Works

Source: Plutarch's Complete Works

“Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a word in edgeways.”

Talking Fire Heard Conversation Woods Burning Apples

Author:Agnes Sligh Turnbull

“The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.”

Two Talking Subjects Conversation Shops Making Love

Author:Phyllis Bottome

“Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from.”

Writing Next Bits Talking Conversation Obscure Desperation

Book:A year in the dark: journal of a film critic, 1968-69

Source: A year in the dark: journal of a film critic, 1968-69

“Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier.”

Thinking Made Talking Easier Conversation

Author:Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

“I often don't endorse what I tweet, rather I want to throw things about to spark conversation or controversy. What I think about something is not particularly important when talking to thousands of unknown strangers.”

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Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“Twitter has allowed the conversation to broaden and become more inclusive. At times, the conversation is really tense but that's because we're talking about really important issues. It's not going to be easy but at least the conversations are happening.”

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Author:Roxane Gay

“I tried the plan of talking incessantly myself, so as to hide the fact I didn't hear anything they said, the result was nobody paid the slightest attention to my (doubtless brilliant) remarks.”

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Book:Letters of Susan Hale

Source: Letters of Susan Hale

“In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.”

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Author:John Grisham

“I'm a very outgoing person so I like girls who are not afraid to be themselves. I'm not a shy person and when I hang out with a girl, I want to be able to talk to her. At the same time I like a girl I can have a conversation with - as opposed to me sitting there talking away because she won't open her mouth. I like conversations and I'm a really big sucker for personality.”

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Author:Corbin Bleu

“The Internet is a very intimate entertainment experience. I'm in my own apartment talking to people, and I want them to feel like they're with me in my apartment. So if I'm listening to them and taking ideas from them and being honest with how I'm feeling, it resonates even more that we're having a real, actual conversation.”

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Author:Grace Helbig

“One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.”

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Author:Herbie Hancock

“Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out.”

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Author:John Dos Passos

“Your need to talk does not create in me a need to listen.”

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Author:Mason Cooley

“The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.”

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Book:Letters to young ladies

Source: Letters to young ladies

“If five years from now we solve the access problem, but what we're hearing is all encrypted, I'll probably, if I'm still here, be talking about that in a very different way: the objective is the same. The objective is for us to get those conversations whether they're by an alligator clip or ones and zeros. Whoever they are, whatever they are, I need them.”

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Author:Louis J. Freeh

“Don't have conversations taking place in empty space. Weave in background details of where the action (dialogue is a form of "action") is taking place. Don't have invisible people talking, either. Let the reader see them as they speak - their facial expressions and gestures. And by all means "cue" the speeches to the speakers.”

Source: Writing for children and teen-agers

“The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.”

Talking Food Conversation Wit Salt

Book:Lectures on the English Comic Writers. By William Hazlitt. Third edition. Edited by his son [William Hazlitt the Younger].

Source: Lectures on the English Comic Writers. By William Hazlitt. Third edition. Edited by his son [William Hazlitt the Younger].

“The internet has taken away a lot of personalization. A lot of people are writing articles and talking about being able to social network and making these connections but I don't think anything will replace the human connection making an actual conversation to somebody face to face.”

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Author:Steve Mahoney

“I think the most important key to quality communication and interaction is developing an interest in the person you`re talking with. Most women know the secret to a quality conversation is to ask quality questions and have a sincere interest in hearing the answers. In fact, the best communicators very often say the least. It`s not the extrovert who dominates the conversation that a client feels most connected with, but rather the individual who shows a real and sincere interest in knowing about the life of the person they`re talking with.”

“Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.”

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Author:Marc Maron

“I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it has become so accepted now, and somebody said, 'You know the Oprah show, I think has had a big impact.'" I said, I don't think so. We did several transgender [shows], but we didn't do as much for transgender as I did for, say, abused kids or battered women. And they said, "But no, you started the conversation. You started the conversation and the conversation has led us to here."”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“God doesn't seem to talk to people like he used to. Who's he talking to now? I don't know. Then I'm walking down the street in Manhattan one day, and I realize maybe it's those guys you see walking down the street talking to themselves. You know, those guys that are like, 'I can't! No, I can't!' Maybe the other side of that conversation is God going, 'You're the new leader.' 'No I can't!' They're not crazy - they're reluctant prophets.”

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Author:Marc Maron

“I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your life is structured around whatever book you're writing, and so is your reading and so are many of your conversations.”

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Author:Sheila Heti

“In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.”

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Author:George Herbert

“Dialogue saves me. I love writing the conversations between my paper people. For some reason, that is the easiest thing for me. It's like I am a transcriptionist for the voices in my head. I can hear them talking (mentally) and have a gift for getting it on the page.”

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Author:Kim Smith

“Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.”

People Way Talking Conversation

Author:Brendan Behan

“When talking with a set designer the dialogue is more centered on locations, interior design, what I like and what doesn't work. There is a certain taste I'm drawn to and feel inspired by, and finding that inspiration is what keeps the conversation moving forward.”

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Author:Marc Forster

“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.”

“In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.”

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Author:Linus Torvalds

“I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing, I think, the right thing. Having the conversations, talking to people about that.”

People Thinking Wells Has Beens Talking Focus Movement Conversation Hearing Right Thing

Author:Dalia Mogahed

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