Don't be afraid if the conversation gets off subject or you feel uncomfortable say 'I was just asking casually anyway.' and go do something else or talk another topic.
The problems, he said, are usually papers that get off the subject or papers written on another topic altogether.
Get off the subject of aggravation and not-good-feeling feelings and focus instead on a subject that you have ease and flow around.
If you can't get at your subject, then your project won't get off the ground.
It was hard to get off the subject of the cesspool, no matter where the conversation went It keep coming back up.
When something like that happens you get off the subject as fast as you can".
"I think," he says, clearly wanting to get off the subject of the novel, "that the thing a stand-up show probably resembles best is a conversation".
After a long pause and laughter from the audience, Mr. Lutz said "30,000 scientists" supported his view and added, "I have to get off this subject".
"We couldn't get off this subject," Curtis Sliwa, a co-host of a WABC radio call-in program, said in a telephone interview.
