Conversation Quotes
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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
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And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive.
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.
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She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation.
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I detest war; it ruins conversation.
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In fact, if the conversation had been animate, the merciful thing to do would have been to take it out behind the barn and shoot it.
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I've had some pretty stimulating conversations about where we are politically as a result of this movie [Snowden], but then there are a lot of questions just about that sensationalism of it.
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What Donald Trump does - President Trump does is he moves forward. He moves the media. He moves the story forward. He stays in the news. I will tell you, unequivocally, I spoke to him, he's very frustrated about Russia being the focus of everyone's conversations when he would like to focus on other things.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.
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I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
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Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.
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It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
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Dad read the sports page. My theory was that he kept up with the sports world in order to be able to have a decent conversation with his brothers—that was the way he loved them.
