“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.” IfsNeedsPersonsHandsBrainFrontsKitchen Author:Rene Redzepi
“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.” WantPersonsActorsNaturalChanceFrontsDirectCamerasActressesProgression Author:Jamie Foxx
“I don't think there is a person who loves the Nets as much as I do - from our fans, all the employees in the arenas, the front office personnel and the owners. I will always be loyal to our fans and the Nets.” ThinkingPersonsFansFrontsOfficeEmployeeOwnersLoyalArenaPersonnelFront Office Author:Jayson Williams
“Your body can dictate your mind, so when I walk to a fight a lot of times I'm scared, I'm scared to death, I have a lot of doubts of myself, I'm afraid to fail, I'm afraid to be humiliated in front of everybody; but what happens, I act like it's impossible for me to fail and that my victory is a certainty. So as I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence my body takes over my mind and I become confident for real. As I'm walking I see the change in my mind and when I reach the Octagon I'm a different person, I'm very confident.” MindPersonsDifferentRealBodyHappensFightingWalksDoubtImpossibleFailingFrontsVictoryWalkingScaredYour BodyCertaintyMmaHumiliatedAfraid To Fail Author:Georges St-Pierre
“I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.” PersonsEnjoyFrontsColorShapesDirectResponseInteractionPortraiture Author:Mary Beth McKenzie
“First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.” FirstsBelieveHumansWellsPersonsI CanTwoEnoughCan DoHuman BeingsFrontsTomorrowTrainingLegsBelieve In YourselfI Can Do ItBeliveJust Believe In Yourself Author:Haile Gebrselassie
“Someone once told me a story about long term relationships. To think of them as a continent to explore. I could spend a lifetime backpacking through Africa, and I would still never know all there is to know about that continent. To stay the course, to stay intentional, to stay curious and connected - that's the heart of it. But it's so easy to lose track of the trail, to get tired, to want to give up, or to want a new adventure. It can be so easy to lose sight of the goodness and mystery within the person sitting right in front of you.” ThinkingKnowsWantGivingHeartPersonsLongStillsStoriesCoursesEasyTermLosesMysteryFrontsAdventureGoodnessGiving UpSittingSightTiredLifetimeTrackConnectedCuriousLong TermContinentsTrailsBackpackingLong Term RelationshipNew Adventure Author:Joy Williams
“Whatever I am, I'm not as bad as the person that read the novel before watching the film. I'll enjoy whatever they [producers] are putting in front of me. If they made an attempt to get things right, then I'll criticize them for what they got wrong. If they made no attempt to get things right, and yet they stumble on something that's right, I'll comment on what they got right.” IfsPersonsMadeFilmEnjoyNovelFrontsProducersCriticizeComment Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view. [Lat., Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo! Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.]” ShouldTryingPersonsViewsFrontsFaultsWalletsNemo Author:Aulus Persius Flaccus
“If a person had accused him of meanness, he could have defended himself. But with a dog - you did something cheap to it when you were sure no one was looking, and it was as though you had done it in front of a mirror.” IfsPersonsDoneDogFrontsMirrorsAccusedMeanness Author:Paula Fox
“I'm the most mellow person offstage. I think it's just, going onstage lets me get out some frustration that I'm too shy to do in real life. Instead of doing it in private, I'd rather do it in front of 1,000 people who've paid $25 to see me lose my mind.” PeopleThinkingMindPersonsRealLosesFrontsLet MePaidReal LifeFrustrationShyMellow Author:Zach Galifianakis
“To me, the act of writing itself is infinitely more important than any success I have achieved through it. Not that I'm knocking success, but after all, I'm the person locked in front of my TRS 80 anywhere from eight to twelve hours a day.” WritingPersonsImportantHoursFrontsEightTwelveLockedKnocking Author:Jacqueline Briskin
“I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at whats in front of you.” ThinkingMeanPersonsMightKnowingSubjectsFrontsPhotographLandscapeInvolvementSnapping Author:Frans Lanting
“I'm not in my element standing around in a bikini in front of strangers. I never stand up in a bikini, even at the swimming pool. I feel like a normal person when it comes to things like that. I'm like any other girl who doesn't want to show her bottom.” WantFeelsPersonsShowsGirlFrontsElementsNormalStandingBottomStrangerSwimmingPoolOther GirlBikinisSwimming Pool Author:Elizabeth Hurley
“Children have to fly on a separate plane, and people older than 60 have to fly on a separate plane also, because for some reason, after you get a little older, you forget that when you pull on the seat in front of you to get up from your seat that the person sitting in that seat actually feels something.” PeopleFeelsChildrenLittlesPersonsReasonForgetFrontsSittingGet UpPlanesSeats Author:Jay R. Ferguson
“I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card - the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it.” IfsHeartKindPersonsHomeUsedFrontsProtectRoseExpectedLovelyCardsLive LifePhrasesReceivingPlasticLeafsFlourishingRibbonsGreetingsSatinGreeting Card Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didn't do the thinking and simply read a script in front of him woefully underestimates him. Ronald Reagan was an extremely intelligent person with a real V8 engine under his hood.” ThinkingPersonsRealBigsSimpleFrontsLessonsIntelligentScriptsEnginesUnderestimateHoodIntelligent Person Author:Eugene Jarecki
“Everybody deserves fair treatment, equal treatment in the eyes of the law and the state. And that includes gays, lesbians, transgender persons. I am not a fan of discrimination and bullying of anybody on the basis of race, on the basis of religion, on the basis of sexual orientation or gender. This is actually part and parcel of the agenda that's also going to be front and centre, and that is how are we treating women and girls.” PersonsStatesEyeLawGirlRaceFansFrontsGayEqualDeserveFairsBasesGenderDiscriminationTreatmentAgendasBullyingCentreTransgenderOrientationParcelEqual Treatment Author:Barack Obama
“Performing onstage is all about reacting in a grand way. You're playing an arena of seventeen or eighteen thousand people and it's your job to make sure the person at the back feels as cool as the person all the way in the front. Being on stage is a bit of a façade. You get to walk out there and be the coolest version of yourself that you could possibly have imagined and then you come off stage and you're just like everyone else.” PeopleWayFeelsPersonsJobsBitsWalksStageFrontsThousandVersionsPerformingArenaEighteenReactingSeventeen Author:Justin Timberlake
“The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won't sue.” PeopleLittlesPersonsTwoRealCharacterThreeCan DoNovelFrontsMaterialsPrayingMarkReal LifeStatementsGatesSolemnResemblanceReal PersonPrototypeFictional Character Author:Wallace Stegner
“I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera. I can be behind the camera and really change things cinematically, and this is giving me an opportunity to do something behind the camera, which I really want to maximize.” WantGivingPersonsI CanOpportunityBehindsFrontsCameras Author:Jamie Foxx
“The beauty of shooting on something that's not in front of an audience is that you can just cut out the times you're laughing. You can cut to the other person and try to use that moment, right before you break. There's an energy to those performances. There's a reason people were laughing. There was something very special. That little extra something was in that line delivery or in that improv, so you try to use that stuff.” PeopleTryingLittlesPersonsReasonMomentsUseEnergyStuffLinesBreakAudienceLaughingCuttingSpecialFrontsPerformancesShootingExtrasThat MomentDelivery Author:Ken Marino
“If you can bow in front of the justice at the height of your power, it means that you are really a just person!” IfsMeanPersonsJusticeFrontsHeightBows Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“I hate normal studios, because you have to say "hi" to the person at the front desk. And then you go into the studio, and there's a second engineer in there that you don't know, and then you're stuck in a glass box with someone talking to you through a walkie-talkie.” KnowsPersonsHateTalkingFrontsNormalI HateGlassesBoxesStudiosStuckNow And ThenEngineersDesksTalkiesFront DeskWalkie Talkies Author:Marilyn Manson
“The difference between me in my work and the me who is here in front of you is that on the page I create a consistency, a voice that must sound really reliable; whereas in person I am free - obviously! - to sound every which way.” WayPersonsSoundVoiceDifferencesFrontsPagesConsistency Author:Vivian Gornick
“When you shoot on film, you don't know whether you've got it or not until you get the film processed, and so it changes the relationship we have with the subject whether it's a landscape or a person in a so-called controlled environment in a chair in a studio in front of you.” KnowsPersonsFilmEnvironmentSubjectsFrontsStudiosLandscapeChairsControlled Author:Bill Henson
“Being totally open with your feelings can make everything difficult. However, in front of the person I love, I feel it is absolutely necessary to be honest and open. I belong to the type who will open up about everything.” FeelsPersonsFeelingsDifficultHonestFrontsTypeBeing Honest Author:Joo Won
“You look at war as something that is putting your best friend in jeopardy. You are responsible for the person in front of you and the person behind you, and the person to the left of you and the person to the right of you.” LooksPersonsWarLeftBehindsFrontsResponsibleBehind YouYour Best FriendJeopardy Author:Steven Spielberg
“The greatest success goes to the person who is not afraid to fail in front of even the largest audience.” PersonsAudienceFailingFrontsEntrepreneurNot AfraidGreatest SuccessAfraid To Fail Author:David Packard
“I feel that I'm a spiritual person in that I feel like telling stories is a spiritual exercise and I think that it's something that we need as a culture and as humans. We need for people to put stories up in front of us that we recognize ourselves so that we can see - you need to be able to see something in a finite form in order to identify with it sometimes because your life sprawls before you in this kind of way that you can't capture.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsFeelsHumansKindPersonsSometimesStoriesAbleSpiritualFormOrderCultureFrontsExerciseCaptureFiniteTelling Stories Author:Holly Hunter
“Peter Hinwood found all these old pictures - Polaroids - and when I saw them, I just didn't believe that the person in them was connected with me. I was in a hotel room with one of those front-and-back mirrors, and I thought, Who the hell is that? I used to be thin as a rake. I used to have the nice-shaped pecs. It's sad. No, it's not sad, it's the reality, and I've accepted this now.” BelievePersonsRealityUsedFoundRoomsHellSawsNiceFrontsMirrorsConnectedAcceptedUsed To BeHotelPeterHotel RoomsRakesPolaroidsOld Picture Author:Manolo Blahnik
“I love not being in charge of writing all the songs, and being the front person - the whole thing is cool.” WritingPersonsWholeSongFronts Author:John Britt Daniel
“I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.” WantBelieveHumansPersonsMomentsHuman BeingsFronts Author:Claudia Rankine
“I find it very endearing when a girl is dorky because it takes a very brave person to act that way in front of people. And in every girl that I've been attracted to, I recognize the dorkiness about her because I think I have some in me. That makes me feel a lot more comfortable with her.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsPersonsGirlFrontsComfortableBraveEvery GirlEndearingDorkyBrave Person Author:Justin Deeley
“I'm not singer; every time I have the urge to sing something, I don't want to do it in front of certain people. I was always that kid afraid of failing, so I just didn't do things. I don't know how to ride a bike, I don't know how to drive. I broke out of shell a bit, and I still am. I think it's more about trying to be the full person I imagine myself to be, regardless of what that means in terms of labels, shade from people, and all of that.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantTryingMeanPersonsStillsKidsCertainBitsTermKnow HowImagineFailingFrontsSingersLabelsBrokeUrgesShadeShellsBike Author:Le1f
“For me as a person who's in the arts and as someone who understands the magnitude of our contributions and the price that was paid to contribute to that, that we just have not gotten that together. I will do all that I can to get in front of our kids, to try to teach them, but at a certain point the people have to want it and come towards it.” PeopleWantTryingPersonsArtI CanKidsTogetherCertainTeachFrontsPaidContributionMagnitude Author:Wynton Marsalis
“Never make heads straight on the shoulders, but turn them aside to the right or to the left, even though they look down, or upward, or straight ahead, because it is necessary for them to look lively and awake and not asleep. And do not depict the front or rear half of the whole person so that too much straightness is displaced, one half above or below the other half; and if you should wish to use stiff figures, do so only in portraying old people.” PeopleIfsShouldLooksPersonsWholeUseTurnsLeftWishHalfToo MuchFrontsFiguresShouldersAwakeOld PeopleLivelyOther HalfOne HalfPortrayingWhole Person Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts.” PeopleThinkingWorldFirstsPersonsWarYoungFrontsAuthorityReactionsWar Of The WorldsIncompetenceTrenchesFirst World War Author:Doris Lessing
“When someone comments on my weight, I have to work hard to stand in front of the mirror and say, "This is who you are. You're okay in this lady, and you're a great, healthy, lovable and loving person." I try to accept myself.” TryingPersonsHardAcceptingFrontsHard WorkHealthyOkayWeightMirrorsWho You AreCommentLovableLoving Person Author:Rosie O'Donnell
“I've been very reluctant on the Twitter front. But I do Instagram now, so I'm slowly coming around. I'm quite a private person, so much of what I do for my job means that I have to be quite public so I'm just nervous about everything being public. I might turn around. Three years ago, I was against all social media but I actually really enjoy Instagram now. Who knows? I never say never!” KnowsYearsMeanPersonsMightJobsTurnsThreeSocialEnjoyMediaFrontsYears AgoSocial MediaNervousThree YearsInstagramReluctantNever Say Never Author:Jeremy Irvine
“First there was a young guy sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother, then there was an older fatter person sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother.” FirstsPersonsYoungMotherGuyFrontsTelevisionSittingDrinkingBeerShirtsT ShirtDrinking BeerYoung Guys Author:William S. Burroughs
“When you're walking onto a bus and trying to get there before the person in front of you, that's a different level of competition than playing in front of 80,000 people.” PeopleTryingPersonsDifferentLevelsFrontsWalkingCompetitionBusDifferent Levels Author:Graeme Le Saux
“The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all reactionary all backward — there-is-no-global-warming — rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled.” PersonsLongMadeTwoRealityPoliticalReligiousWhiteClassFrontsColorTvsRepublicanConservativeEducatedFilmmakerGlobal WarmingObscureBackwardsRedneckReactionariesTokensUneducatedIdeologues Author:Frank Schaeffer
“I went to network on a handful of pilots, and going to network is the most stressful situation anybody can ever be in. You're supposed to be on point, you're supposed to be at the top of your game, the funniest you can be, in about five minutes, in front of people wearing suits who really don't care, and they've probably already picked their person, but they have to see a handful just to satisfy the process. It's the most horrible, horrible process known to man. I wouldn't want anybody to go through it.” PeopleMenWantPersonsCareGamesProcessSituationKnownFiveMinutesFrontsDon't CareHorribleSuitsSupposed To BePilotsFive MinutesHandfulStressfulStressful SituationsWearing A Suit Author:Andy Dick
“When you see a close person you know pass in front of your eyes, it's hard core. After all that, I just wanted to enjoy every day. That was my goal. And to give thanks and to live fully.” KnowsGivingPersonsHardEyeWantedEnjoyGoalFrontsCoreThanksHard Core Author:Lenny Kravitz
“Disneyland celebrated its 40th anniversary by burying a time capsule. They say it will be dug up in 50 years - or when the last person in line at Space Mountain gets to the front, whichever comes first.” YearsFirstsPersonsLastsLinesSpaceFrontsMountainDisneylandBuryingTime Capsules40th Anniversary Author:Jay Leno
“I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.” ThinkingWayNeedsWritingMeanPersonsArtEyeTogetherFrontsHonestyPhotographyArt IsObservationRelatedTelling The TruthAccuracyEloquent Author:Eudora Welty
“It's so much easier for me to talk about my life in front of two thousand people than it is one-to-one. I'm a real defensive person, because if you were sensitive in my neighborhood you were something to eat.” PeopleIfsPersonsTwoRealFrontsEasierThousandSensitiveNeighborhood Author:Richard Pryor
“I was a 36C or D, and at 5' 1'', I knew that being a small person with big boobs standing in front of an audience was not going to be easy. It would be really hard to get people to pay attention to me without mocking me. Getting a breast reduction to prepare for my career was no different from people who work to get good grades to get into a good college to get into a good graduate school to get a good job. I went down to a B cup, and it was the best thing in the whole world.” PeopleWorldPersonsDifferentHardWholeBigsWould BeSchoolJobsEasyPayAttentionCareersAudienceFrontsCollegeStandingWhole WorldCupsPay AttentionBest ThingsGradesBreastsGraduatesGood JobReductionGraduate SchoolGood GradesGood CollegeSmall Person Author:Janeane Garofalo
“I think that becoming a parent absolutely changes your entire life and certainly changes your work, and it has changed mine. It just allows you to have access to your emotions, even more than you already did. You're watching this little person grow in front of you, and you realize that you're seeing how precious life is and how quickly it goes. You get to things faster, even emotionally. I'm not as timid about reaching into some areas in myself and bringing that to my work.” ThinkingLittlesPersonsLife IsGrowsParentRealizingEmotionSeeingFrontsChangedMinesBecomingAreasAccessFasterReachingPrecious LifeHow Precious Life IsBecoming A Parent Author:Sasha Alexander