Famous Quotes & Sayings

Buster Keaton

Everybody at Metro was in my gag department, including Irving Thalberg. They'd laugh their heads off at dialogue written by all your new writers. They were joke-happy. They didn't look for action; they were looking for funny things to say.

That's the $64,000 question. Will Than Shwe - if and when he is succeeded - will he be replaced by someone more pragmatic and disposed to dialogue with the opposition?

Kara Swisher

Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

They will exchange views on the nuclear issue. We will discuss how to resolve this issue ... properly through dialogue and consultation.

It was an opportunity for us to meet the governor. We wanted to show him there was some dialog between local officials and the timber industry.

George H. W. Bush

It was a positive step yesterday. It was a step forward in making this world a more secure place. And I want to thank our other partners in the six-party dialogue by working together.

Nancy Kress

For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.

What we do sometimes when we're in the sessions recording the dialogue is we'll set up a video camera and we'll video the whole session. So then the animator, if he wants, can draw upon those tapes to pull expressions, mouth shapes, maybe some gesturing that happens.

Marisa Tomei

I prefer to express myself physically, or non-verbally. I prefer just to react without having a lot of dialogue.

Martin Henderson

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.

Odeya Rush

I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don't even want to know what I sounded like back then!

Scarlett Johansson

I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and something I've always been pretty fast with.

Pervez Musharraf

All these moves are focused to keep the dialogue process moving towards its final destination,

The meeting went off well. We were on the same frequency. The Kashmir issue needs to be resolved through dialogue. More important is the involvement is the people of Kashmir in the dialogue process.

Jonathan Jakubowicz

They were extremely helpful, ... They helped with the dialogue and making the script as real as possible. It was a collaborative effort.

There was good dialogue with the hospital folks.

It's actually very similar. It's a big station (KMOX). It's at 1120 on the dial and it hits 44 states.

It is our hope that it will lead to more family dialogue on this issue for underage minors, and that it will lead to fewer abortions.

It removes the preacher from the community, ... and I've got some problem with that. Ministry requires an ongoing dialogue with the community.

We are prepared to enter into a dialogue with India at any place, at any level, anywhere, at any time,

We're in dialogue with with the government of Chad, consortium members and other relevant parties.

For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.

The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles.

We remind the Burundi government and security forces that respect for human rights and peaceful dialogue should be key elements in their efforts to re-establish security in the country.

Our dialogue is the possibility of being acknowledged, loved and accepted. It can happen.

Someone's going to have to dial the numbers for me. I don't know if I'm ever going to stop shaking.

SBC is resetting the dial and is probably going back to flat sales growth. Why should I invest in something that's not that exciting of a story?

SBC is resetting the dial and is probably going back to flat sales growth, ... Why should I invest in something that's not that exciting of a story?

This is the first time we've done anything of this kind. We're opening up a dialogue really about how we can work together.

Archie Panjabi

I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.

We're having discussions with them, We welcome an open dialogue with appropriate Kenyan authorities and look forward to a positive resolution.

Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it can be very difficult for people who don't speak it, or who haven't been raised in it, to understand when it's running by quickly, spoken in particular by young men colloquially to each other. So that really is an issue.

Jim Clyburn

We are hopeful about the opportunities ahead, and stand ready to join this President in an open and honest dialogue about improving the state of our union for all Americans not the select few.