Awkward conversations are painful, but they’re way easier than divorce, resentment, and heartbreak.
I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person – this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life – finally have an opportunity to live.
I’ve been in thousands of conversations dripping with misogyny. I’ve initiated many of those conversations myself. From my fraternity roots to my bachelor days in New York, I know I have not always shown up in ways that I am proud of.
If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won’t have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
I’m the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss out on. And I ask what’s going on, and I have to ask to be included. But I’m not going to be sad about it. I don’t live in sad isolation. It’s just a situation I’m used to.
I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it’s just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.
I’m all for awkward, frank, sometimes painful conversations about things that give everyone a better perspective on who they are in the here and now, and how they want to proceed from there.
Honestly, what I have the most fun with, I just hang out with my cat, and I go online, and I talk to my followers, and I have real conversations with them.
You finish a film not in the editing, but in the conversations that audiences have with themselves – and in that sense, every viewer is making a slightly different film. And that’s wonderful.
I’m happy to talk to liberal media, and we often have good conversations.
I will continue to be open in my music and in interviews and keep those conversations going about the issues we face as an LGBT+ community until those conversations no longer need to be had.
I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It’s to cause conversations, and it’s to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.
Some of the most important conversations I’ve ever had occurred at my family’s dinner table.
I don’t want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day.
Growth hacking isn’t some proprietary technical process shrouded in secrecy. In fact, it has grown and developed in the course of very public conversations. There are no trade secrets to guard.
Specifically with directors I’d worked with, and even some that I haven’t, they were all incredibly generous with me, having really long conversations about what they felt was useful as tips.
I have 1.4 million followers on Twitter. I get very interesting, sometimes very diverse input from my followers. So it’s sort of like this water cooler, digital water cooler, if you want to think about it, where you go and you listen to conversations that are happening that perhaps will shape your thinking.
It was through my hashtag #girlslikeus where I connected with other trans women on Twitter and Tumblr. We had challenging conversations, courageous personal revelations, and shared insights and experiences, and just had fun. The hashtag tethered me to many women in my community in impactful, lasting ways.
Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I’ve grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.
I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.
It’s funny that through learning how to physically fight, you also learn how to navigate really complicated and hard conversations with people.
‘Do the Right Thing’ was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the Teamsters. So we had some conversations.
Speaking as a parent, I don’t think parents think all the time about structures. I know from conversations I’ve had with other mums, I’ll ask: ‘Is your child’s school an academy or a local authority school?’ – and they’ll look at me blankly.
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.
The Internet really lets people connect that wouldn’t have in the past, and lets conversations happen and connections happen.
I mean, you go to the internet and you can see all these conversations and arguments that our fans have about our music and that’s wonderful to know, that people would take the time to be that involved.
For the most part, my characters don’t talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for the most part, my characters go along with it. I write intense character sketches and long, play-like conversations between me and them, but they stay out of the book writing itself.
Some of the best conversations I’ve had are sitting around a camp fire.
I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.
I love hearing other people’s stories, and I freely admit I’m scavenging for material through their conversations, but really, at the same time, I’m living an ordinary life.
I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms.
What any candidate should do in any race, frankly, is to show up. There’s no special, secret sauce there. It’s about having real conversations with real people, and when you do that you stay tethered to the things that matter. And that’s what people want.
I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.
Our conversations on ‘The Herd’ are irreverent, insightful and original. That’s a great combination.
YouTube is an amazing platform to talk about social issues because it gives people the ability to tell their own stories and reach audience around the world who may otherwise never be exposed to these people and conversations.
My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.
Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people – I was never really made for this kind of stuff.
I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.
Together with open conversations and greater understanding, we can ensure that attitudes for mental health change and children receive the support they deserve.
There is an incredible appetite out there for in-depth, high-level conversations about what’s going on.
Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
I had that extroverted energy, and I always involved myself in quite adult conversations. My mum never hid us from that. There was never a kids’ table; we were never treated as kids, per se, because I don’t think she believes in that.
I’m just a philosophical journalist, trying to describe what’s going on. I want to stimulate conversations, and hope out of them will come truths.
Like a nontechnical user trying to understand a technical problem, our racial illiteracy limits our ability to have meaningful conversations about race.
I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.
My wife and I will often have conversations about ‘Good Times’ and ‘The Jeffersons’ and ‘Sanford and Son.’ They were doing incredible stuff that was very funny but also very socially conscious.
I strongly believe film should create conversations around themes we are grappling with as a society.
I like parties. I like talking and conversations.
Just having conversations with God, begging God to make the pain go away, and then the pain wouldn’t go away. So I’m like ‘Who the hell am I talking to? God is not responding.’
I live in places where, although I don’t take public stands, I’m surrounded by liberals, and I’ve spent a lot of time in this country talking to people who have very different views than the people I live around and trying to see kind of what’s in common beneath those conversations.
There’s not a lot of time to have conversations on the field during the game. That’s where the trust and the practice comes into play, through practice, through off-site throwing sessions; that’s where you build that trust and build that cohesion with a wide receiver.
