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I'm bleeding, I'm not just making conversation. -- Richard Siken
Wolf," said Ran, enunciating it very carefully. "What an unusual name. Did your parents give it to you?" "Does it matter?" said Wolf, tossing away his bone. "I'm only making conversation." "I'd prefer silence," Wolf said, a growl in his tone. -- Marissa Meyer
The world, more suffering than sinning, turns toward Pope Francis as in a conversation people turn to the person who is making sense of things. -- Eugene Kennedy
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. -- Nadia Giosia
When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very intimate and extended conversation with the work materials themselves. -- David Wroblewski
Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult world around them. They would sit and carry on conversations, making the dolls real people. -- Ruth Handler
It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say. -- Ricki Lake
My favorite thing about making movies is that it's the only area of human life that I've ever discovered where I can walk away from somebody in the middle of a conversation with somebody and they won't be offended. -- Alan Arkin
The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and swing, which means even though they're making up music, they're trying to make it up together. It feels great, like you're having a great conversation with somebody. -- Wynton Marsalis
I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time. -- Jennifer Lynch
There is a cliche that probably has some anecdotal evidence on the side that comedians are very depressed people, but that's because no one is ever going to seem as funny in a normal conversation as compared to when they're up there onstage in the spotlight making a huge audience keel over with laughter. -- Robert Klein
I did a film called 'Floating' early on that had a scene which was similar to a real-life situation I was in at the time. It involved me having a conversation with my father, who was dying. It was close to home and it made me realise acting wasn't just making faces for the cameras, it was a real art form. -- Norman Reedus
People have come to me for my opinion since 'October Baby.' But, hey, look, I'm an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that's making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I'm not talking about politics. I'm just trying to have a conversation with my own kids. -- John Schneider
Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation. -- Jean de la Bruyere
The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love. -- Phyllis Bottome
They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behavior in the world known to them. -- Edward Snowden
God, just shoot me the day I start making music you can just put on in the car and have a conversation over it. -- Jack Antonoff
Wisdom, in the world of enlightenment, is not gained through conversation. Wisdom and enlightenment is something that you gain by making the mind still. -- Frederick Lenz
Imperceptibly, more time passes when I'm not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making. It is immeasurably sad. -- Luke Davies
If we can't have a serious conversation without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for one day, we're in trouble. -- John F. Kerry
Many designers are gay men making clothes for women. Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women. -- Kim Gordon
The stronger person is not the one making the most noise but the one who can quietly direct the conversation toward defining and solving problems. -- Aaron T. Beck
Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale. -- Nicholas Sparks
An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation. -- Jean de la Bruyere
But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal. -- Frank Bidart
It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one's mind. -- Barbara Pym
The conversation limped along this line of thought much like a zombie: lifeless and mindless and making a jelly of whatever healthy brains were within its reach. -- Steve Hockensmith

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