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If you're studying from a book and trying to listen in on a conversation at the same time, those are two separate projects, each started and maintained by distinct circuits in the brain. Pay more attention to one for a moment and you're automatically paying less attention to the other.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Attention Automatically Book Brain Conversation Distinct Each Less Listen Maintained Moment More Other Pay Paying Projects Same Same Time Separate Started Studying Those Time Trying Two You

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I'm a point of conversation for my friends.

~Daniel Portman

Topics: Conversation Friends Point

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I don't know what drives me, but I wake up in the morning, and I want to participate in the creative cultural conversation.

~Dasha Zhukova

Topics: Conversation Creative Cultural Drives Know Me Morning Participate Up Wake Wake Up Want

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Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.

~Dave Grohl

Topics: Composition Contrived Conversation Everything Lot Made Music Nirvana Some Surreal Want Wanted

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Often, as an interviewer, particularly when you're talking to highly visible people, celebrities, and it's known that negative things have happened, they don't want to talk about it, or you have to really work up to it. You have to carefully construct the conversation so that they feel open enough to discuss some of those things with you.

~Dave Itzkoff

Topics: About Carefully Celebrities Construct Conversation Discuss Enough Feel Happened Highly Interviewer Known Negative Often Open Particularly People Really Some Talk Talking Things Those Up Visible Want Work You

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People love having a home. People love going to their house and sleeping in their bedroom and having a conversation around the dinner table. You don't particularly think of that conversation as a private conversation; you just think of it as something that happened in your home.

~Dave Morin

Topics: Around Bedroom Conversation Dinner Dinner Table Going Happened Having Home House Just Love Particularly People Private Sleeping Something Table Think You Your

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I think it's important that your work is in conversation with artists in your community.

~Daveed Diggs

Topics: Artists Community Conversation Important Think Work Your I Think

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I'm comfortable on the progressive side. But I'm still more pitched at fighting the Right than I am about building a progressive platform for the future. It's fair to say that that conversation doesn't interest me as much.

~David Brock

Topics: About Am Building Comfortable Conversation Fair Fighting Future Interest Me More Much Platform Progressive Right Say Side Still Than I Am

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Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as 'and' and 'what,' or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as 'hello.'

~David Crystal

Topics: Apart Books Conversation Fall Focus Hello Ignore Items Language Our Provide Quirky Skeleton Structure Tend Unusual Which Without Word Words Would

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I support a constitutional conversation, as the Labour Party does, which will allow New Zealanders to evolve a more mature and stable constitutional form, but that's not something that I, as Labour Party, would want to impose, either on the party or on the public.

~David Cunliffe

Topics: Allow Constitutional Conversation Does Either Evolve Form Impose Labour Labour Party Mature More New Party Public Something Stable Support Want Which Will Would

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