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"And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters."
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"He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them."
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"A : I know what you're going to say, B.B : Yes, I've dreamed about this chat, A."
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"Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation."
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"Prayer is for every moment of our lives, not just for times of suffering or joy. Prayer is really a place, a place where you meet God in genuine conversation."
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"Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
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"The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees."
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"When beginning a conversation, ask the other person, "Do you have time to speak right now? If they say no, you can say, "I have some valuable information to share with you. What time would work best for you?"
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"A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship."
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"14 Awesome Conversation Starters - 1. What do you do for fun? Hobbies, recreation. 2. What are your super powers? Gifts, talents, strengths. 3. Good morning! It's great to see you! 4. What is your story? Tell me about yourself. 5. What brought you to __________? 6. Do you have anything special happening in your life (or your business)? 7. What's the best thing that's happened this week? 8. Are you living your life purpose or still searching for it? 9. What gives you passion and makes you happy to be alive? 10. Do you have any pets? 11. How do you know the host? 12. When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? 13. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be? 14. What's next on your bucket list?"
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"One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone."
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"There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction."
Books
"People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of."
People
"One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times."
Kids
"But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance."
Enthusiasm
"It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean."
Books
"I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea."
Idea
"When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything."
Fact
"I think really good books can be read by anybody."
Books
"I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting."
Kids
"A good book written for children can be read by adults."
Children
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