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“Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.”

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Author:Kurt Masur

“At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.”

Needs Would Be House Hours Risk Fronts Computer Sitting Mail

Author:Marian McPartland

“I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.”

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Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.”

Ifs Want Play Guy Sports Decision Fronts Dad My Dad

Author:Peyton Manning

“When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.”

People Way Hard Play Would Be Comedy Fronts Timing Stand Up Comedy

Author:Dean Norris

“So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.”

Years Said Book Law Found Prayer Fronts Judging Standing Guilty Pockets Medal Standing There St Jude

Author:Aaron Neville

“I really do not think about 'Oh, right now I have to defend those points and this title.' I just really want to enjoy playing on the court, in front of the fans.”

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Author:Li Na

“I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.”

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Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.”

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Author:Frank Ocean

“I find it's better to focus on what's in front of you and to keep putting one foot in front of the other.”

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Author:Mary-Kate Olsen

“I just always loved to perform and I was lucky enough to be in front of the right people at the right time!”

People Enough Fronts Lucky Right Time

Author:Renee Olstead

“Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply.”

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Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.”

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Author:Jonathan Pryce

“I've spoken in front of members of the U.S. Congress about a new dream of living in communities where everybody is welcome and everyone can live and go to school and work without facing the fear of bullies.”

Dream School Community Fronts Members Congress Welcome Bully

Author:Lauren Potter

“Our kids are actually doing what we told them to do when they sit in front of that TV all day or in front of that computer game all day. The society is telling kids unconsciously that nature's in the past. It really doesn't count anymore, that the future is in electronics, and besides, the bogeyman is in the woods.”

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Author:Richard Louv

“Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel when we sit in front of a computer all day.”

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Author:Richard Louv

“When you're sitting in front of a screen, you're not using all of your senses at the same time. Nowhere than in nature do kids use their senses in such a stimulated way.”

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Author:Richard Louv

“I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.”

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Author:Derek Luke

“One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian is someone who can stand up in front of an audience and make you laugh. I've never done stand-up and I never will. I'm a comic actor. My comedy comes through my characters.”

Done Character Actors Audience Laughing Comedy Fronts Comic Comedian Misconception Make You Laugh

Author:Eugene Levy

“I like to take my dog on the road. He stays up front; he likes it there.”

Dog Fronts Likes My Dog

Author:Jake Owen

“If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word 'just' is not so good, but 'mess' might be right. Why not a mess? If it makes you say, 'Wow, I've never seen anything like that', that's beautiful.”

Ifs Might Beautiful Fronts Painting Mess Why Not Wow Might Is Right

Author:Albert Oehlen

“I definitely feel much more comfortable in front of the cameras after 'The Hills.' Before, it was much more nerve-racking.”

Feels Fronts Comfortable Cameras Hills Nerves

Author:Audrina Patridge

“For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling a story worth telling, it's worth investing the time into developing.”

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Author:Danny Pino

“One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.”

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Author:Chance the Rapper

“One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in front of the public. Some writers aren't comfortable with that. I don't have a problem with that.”

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Author:Kathy Reichs

“That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.”

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Author:Adam Rich

“But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.”

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Author:Amy Ray

“I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.”

Thinking Kind States Fronts Flow Climbing Thinking Ahead

Author:Aron Ralston

“I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something like that, whether it's too much gambling, too much food, too much (sic) cold beers on the weekend - anything that you put in front of the prize is going to end up getting in the way and hurting you in the end.”

Way Ends Goal Hurt Party Hell Too Much Fronts Cold Scene Beer Prize Gambling Weekend Hurting You Cold Beer

Author:Brad Renfro

“When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.”

Audience Fronts Incentives

Author:Dave Van Ronk

“If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.”

Ifs Rooms Practice Audience Pieces Fronts Prove Tape Living Room

Author:Dave Van Ronk

“I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.”

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Author:Eddie Redmayne

“It was extremely useful to grow up in front of the camera. It gives the camera no significance. I think it helped me have perspective on things. The attraction that Hollywood can have, I feel like I'm over that. Instead I just concentrate on acting.”

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Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.”

Two Moments Shows Audience Fronts Goes On Cameras Flying Seats Pants Rehearsal Two Days Rewriting

Author:Michael Richards

“What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.”

World Firsts Whole Growth Imagination Fronts Development Whole World

Author:Phylicia Rashad

“If you see someone in the kitchen that has good hands and a quick brain, then you need that person to be in the front of everything.”

Ifs Needs Persons Hands Brain Fronts Kitchen

Author:Rene Redzepi

“Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in 'The Trusty' was going for water, I did not know that he would meet a fetching young farm wife until I got him into her front yard.”

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Author:Ron Rash

“You have to be luxurious nude. It's difficult to move in the nude in front of a mirror. It's much easier to move when you're dressed. But if you can walk around in the nude easily in front of your man, if you can be luxurious in the nude, then you've really got it.”

Ifs Men Moving Difficult Walks Fronts Easier Mirrors Luxurious

Author:Sonia Rykiel

“I don't have to worry about how my movies sell because I'm not the guy in front.”

Guy Worry Fronts Sells

Author:John Slattery

“I'm not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It's just not one of my insecurities.”

People Looks Fronts Fool Scared Insecurity

Author:Amy Smart

“I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour.”

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Author:Ashlee Simpson

“As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.”

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Author:Asne Seierstad

“My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.”

Grace Rights Fronts Source Spring Favors Grace Of God

Author:Gerrit Smith

“Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not.”

Men Doe Given Pieces Fronts Kings Checks Queens Cautious Be Cautious

Book:The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions

Source: The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions

“A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.”

Said Important Games Player Fronts Kings Advantage Opposition Squares Adverse

Book:The American Chess-player's Handbook: Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis of All the Recognised Openings : Exemplified by Appropriate Games Actually Played by Morphy, Harrwitz, Anderssen, Staunton, Paulsen, Montgomery, Meek and Others : from the Work of Staunton

Source: The American Chess-player's Handbook: Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis of All the Recognised Openings : Exemplified by Appropriate Games Actually Played by Morphy, Harrwitz, Anderssen, Staunton, Paulsen, Montgomery, Meek and Others : from the Work of Staunton

“When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.”

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Author:Jamie Foxx

“It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb chops down in front of the leading man.”

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Author:Juliet Stevenson

“On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.”

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Author:Ken Salazar

“There is the physical world that we live in, which we perceive through the senses, but there are other worlds. Right in front of you there are other worlds, right now. Those worlds are as real, if you will, as the physical world.”

Ifs World Real Fronts Buddhism Right Now Senses Perceive Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Human beings go to church. The guy in the front dressed in black is the guy you defer to. He is in charge of the mysteries of universe, which ordinary human beings don't seem to have the inclination to understand.”

Humans Seems Guy Humanity Universe Black Church Human Beings Mystery Fronts Buddhism Ordinary Inclination

Author:Frederick Lenz