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I just love the whole idea of conversational prints. -- Anna Sui
I am conversational - I just like to engage and talk about things. -- Caroline Rhea
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. -- Bill Watterson
The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive. -- Fran Lebowitz
We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention. -- David Hanson
If people are sitting in the barbershop talking about my butt, it's conversational. That's what people are gonna do. -- Nicki Minaj
For film and TV, try to have a more conversational tone. For stage, you'll need better diction and bigger vocal production. -- Jason Fuchs
I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult. -- Deidre Hall
Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs. -- Ruth Gordon
I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column. -- Robert Mankoff
I tend to be conversational and loose with dialogue in general, not out of disrespect for the source material but because that's the way I work. -- Clark Duke
I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin. -- Katie Leung
When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to. -- Chrissie Hynde
Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I love Bill Finn's stuff. It's so rewarding for an actor. It's conversational but intricate. He writes some beautiful, simple songs and melodies, but he also writes this cacophony for people. -- Max von Essen
When we think about the characteristics of Twitter that make it unique, it is all of public, real-time, conversational, and distributed. We are the only platform that is all of those at scale. -- Dick Costolo
If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend. -- Chuck Klosterman
Many nations use language simply to convey information, but it's different in Ireland. With most conversational exchanges you get an 'added extra' like the free little biscuit you sometimes get with a cappuccino in a fancy coffee place. -- Marian Keyes
During holiday parties when people used to ask me what I did for a living, I would tell them I sold resort timeshares. That was an effective conversational nonstarter, until I met someone that actually did sell resort timeshares. -- Dean Karnazes
What they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they've brought the toilet out from behind the locked door. They've made it conversational. People go out and upgrade their toilet. They talk about it. They've sanitized it. -- Rose George
For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point. -- Frank Shorter
Beating up on public schools is not just our nation's favorite blood sport, but also a favorite conversational entertainment of the well-off - like debating the most recent toothsome plot twists of 'Big Love' - who, of course, have no dog in the fight. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
A person with 'oppositional conversational style' is a person who, in conversation, disagrees with and corrects whatever you say. He or she may do this in a friendly way, or a belligerent way, but this person frames remarks in opposition to whatever you venture. -- Gretchen Rubin
It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice. -- J. Tillman
Flirting is conversational chemistry. -- Isaac Mizrahi
Be yourself. Be conversational. Be engaged. -- Aliza Sherman
From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way. -- George Bernard Shaw
... a bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort ... -- Anita Loos
Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen. -- Elizabeth Lesser
Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know. -- Cullen Hightower
Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don't persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen. -- Elizabeth Lesser
I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes. -- George Sanders
The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius. -- Leigh Hunt
Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human. -- Bryce Courtenay
The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics ... -- Ama Ata Aidoo
I like my lyrics to feel conversational and truthful, as if we're having real talk. I don't really like generic lyrics. -- Meredith Brooks
Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released without significant damage to one's self-esteem. -- Elizabeth Eulberg
Marry a man / woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other. -- Tony Robbins
Im pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column. -- Robert Mankoff
I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing. -- Yannis Philippakis
Most gay, conversational, careless, lovely city ... where one drinks golden Tokay until one feels most beautiful, and warm and loved - oh, Budapesth! -- Winifred Holtby
When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along. -- Jeff Lindsay
Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God. -- Dallas Willard
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Two of the biggest conversational blunders you can make are saying something when you should stay silent, and staying silent when you should say something. -- Mardy Grothe
The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret. -- Fred Allen
When she had failed once or twice to respond to some conversational gambit or other, Bond also relapsed into silence and occupied himself with his own gloomy thoughts. -- Ian Fleming
I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery. -- Matthea Harvey
We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence, he sometimes says something. -- Robert Morley
People who don't like musicals like, 'why are they singing? Why aren't they just talking? If you make the lyric feel really conversational, it's much easier for them to bridge that gap. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect. -- Patrice Pavis
Don't think of the Internet as a broadcast medium...think of it as a conversational space. Conversation is the opposite of marketing. It's talking in our own voices about things we want to hear about. -- David Weinberger

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