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You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.
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'SNL' is one of those jobs where you are constantly reminded of how lucky you are and that you get to meet some of these people whose work you enjoy. Then you get to meet them, and they are just wonderful people. It turns out wonderfully, and you have a great conversation.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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A few weeks ago, I was at the gym, talking to a friend about politics. Overhearing the conversation, a young man - maybe 25 years old - interrupted to say, 'Obama? He hasn't done a single thing!'
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
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Actually, I was having dinner with Michael (Stipe, of R.E.M.) when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.
Icon Magazine. April 1998 -
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Speech, 11-01-1989 -
And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
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And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
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Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
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Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.
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As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
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