The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive,… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
[Interminable monologues] became an issue only late in [Adolf] Hitler's life. He became repetitive after the war started going badly in Russia.… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in… — Carson Daly Copy Share Image
My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
Oh, you’re going to die all right. All of you. And for what you’ve done to my brother you will suffer unimaginably!… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I started acting when I was five years old. I found it randomly, through listening to my brother study monologues. I auditorally… — Chloe Grace Moretz Copy Share Image
It's this long monologue [in Valley of Violence] with Ethan Hawke talking about life and everything with a dog. That's not in… — Ti West Copy Share Image
my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
I like to think that I differ from other interviewers in the sense that I hide my agenda more successfully, and I'm… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I view my stories as sexual or personal. Curiously, I don't. When I was writing those stories I thought of them as… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
You listen to any monologue on late-night TV or just in general, to people talking, and there's always a joke at someone's… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people who go to drama school have this ease with the text and they all have five… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
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