#dialogue

You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#audience #dialogue #instruct #laugh #read

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. ↗

— June Jordan

#among #becomes #between #dialogue #each

With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living. ↗

— Gay Talese

#describe #dialogue #i #living #move

It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#cold #cold war #continents #countries #dialogue

Rob looked a little shocked. "Don't you look at me like that," I snapped at him. "Just because I can't trim a beard don't mean I can't swear." "Like a sailor," he added. "I've never heard so many curses in my whole life. All combined. ↗

— A.C. Gaughen

#snappy-dialogue #humor

Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed. 'The first one. I really resent being called the second. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#dialogue #humor #idiots #humor

I have seen nothing and nothing but death and destruction. Creation yes, but more death than birth. Mankind has learned nothing from their forefathers…their ancestors. It is true what they say, history does repeat itself, Delacroix and those after history are left to make history but how can they make history when history has already been made? - Damion Nicodemeus; Chapter 1: Christian’s Training ↗

— S.C. Parris

#dialogue #history #history-repeating-itself #inspirational #the-dark-world

When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream to ask for changes. ↗

— Jill Hennessy

#alter #anything #ask #changes #dialogue

In looking at our our individual classroom pedagogies and our isolated artistic endeavors, we must broaden the frame of analysis to consider historical, contextual and institutional assumptions. This means a constant awareness of how the micro-practices of interpersonal dialogue and embodied ways of knowing each other can provide an impetus fro structural change. ↗

— Ann Elizabeth Armstrong

#dialogue #embodiment #feminism #pedagogy #performance

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can. ↗

— Louis Malle

#difficult #happen #itself #make #perhaps