Communication Quote by Tom Stoppard Download Open image “I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.” — Tom Stoppard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication Contradicting Dialogue Play Respectable Way Writing
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing. — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions, — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been inventing people… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I'm… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I find that dialogue is bad in most scripts. I just think there are very few writers that can capture the natural way people… — Stephen Dorff Copy Share Image
It's fun to intentionally write bad dialogue. It's not so fun when you do it, but didn't mean to. — Dan Schneider Copy Share Image
If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
