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“An actor stands in front of a camera onstage, and he controls time and space for the audience. He tells them how long this will take, where to look, when to look, what to think about it. And good performers should be able to do their part with the sound off.”

Thinking Should Looks Long Able Actors Sound Space Audience Fronts Cameras Performers Time And Space

Author:John Michael Higgins

“Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it is. When I improvise and I'm in good form, I'm like somebody half sleeping. I even forget there are people in front of me. Great improvisers are like priests; they are thinking only of their god.”

People Thinking Knows Writing Stills Book Ends Form Sleep Forget Half Mystery Fronts Priests Improvisation

Book:Jazz Violin

Source: Jazz Violin

“Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins.”

Thinking World Real Problem Deals Fronts Band Majors Scales Holistic Major Change

Author:Stone Gossard

“Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor. You have to be able to just hit the backhand. You can't think about all the pieces of it. You can't think about your swing. You just have to do it. Reading someone else's deconstruction of what I do, all it does is put me in my head. On nights when the show goes particularly well, I am not aware of its fluidity. A lot of nights I'm just worried that I'm not going to be as good as the script in front of me.”

Thinking Wells Doe Shows Able Beautiful Night Reading Pieces Fronts Jokes Scripts Worried Comedian Endeavor Swings Athletic Deconstruction Fluidity

Author:Stephen Colbert

“I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.”

Thinking Rooms Fronts Drama Tragedy Greek Epic Greek Tragedy

Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get the best out of actors, and some don't have a clue about acting. I think it'd be a good idea if directors put themselves in front of the camera, or even went on a six-week drama course, just to know a little bit about what that feels like.”

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Author:Paddy Considine

“I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.”

Thinking Young Growing Fronts Becoming Invisible Hardest Hardest Thing Growing Old

Author:Amy Grant

“The first time I ever performed spoken word poetry in front of a big crowd, it totally failed. It ended, people barely clapped...in retrospect the poem was terrible. And for a while I thought this was something I would never do again. And then I realized that, in my 17-year-old head, that was the worst it could have been. And it wasn't that bad - [because] from there, it could only get better. And I think that failure kind of freed me up to explore and not be afraid of failing again.”

People Thinking Years Firsts Kind Has Beens Bigs Failing Worst Fronts Terrible First Time Crowds I Realized Get Better Could Have Been Retrospect Spoken Word

Author:Phil Kay

“Everything has to be understood in opposition to something else. For some dang reason, the ego prefers to make one side better than the other, so we choose. And we decide males are better than females, America is better than Canada, Democrats are better than Republicans. And for most people, once this decision is made, it is amazing the amount of blindness they become capable of. They really don't see what's right in front of them. Once you see this, it's an amazing breakthrough, and that is the starting place for moving away from dualistic thinking.”

“In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.”

People Thinking Cities Doors Fronts New York Areas New York City Taxi Cab Front Doors Great Outdoors Taxi Cabs

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Lying Morning Fronts Paper Newspapers Flash

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I think people imagine that I have about five scripts sitting in front of me and I say, 'I think I'm going to go with the super hero thing and after that I'll wrap it up with some more sci-fi and then do a romantic comedy.' But it doesn't quite work out that way.”

People Thinking Way Five Comedy Imagine Fronts Hero Sitting Scripts Work Out Sci Fi Imagine That Wraps Super Hero

Author:Nathan Fillion

“People just like to be on camera. There's a huge desire to be in front of the camera, and once there, people will say and do almost anything. It's sort of a drug, and I think people get addicted to it.”

People Thinking Desire Fronts Huge Drug Cameras

Author:Steve Carell

“I think it's always important to reflect anyway, no matter what age you're approaching or what milestone is in front of you. Reflection should be almost a daily thing if possible.”

Ifs Thinking Should Important Matter Age Fronts Reflection No Matter What Milestone

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal. I think, male or female, that was a record number.”

Thinking Winning Numbers Records Fans Fronts Thousand Female Gold Males Medal Unreal Stadiums Gold Medals

Author:Carli Lloyd

“The media uses polls to create news stories. I think polls are just an extension of the editorial page, an excuse to get them on the front page. You can ask any question you want, get any answer you want, and then run around with that as a news story.”

Thinking Want Stories Use Running Asks Answers Media Fronts News Pages Excuse Extensions Polls Editorials News Stories

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“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.”

People Thinking Mind Persons Real Loses Fronts Let Me Paid Real Life Frustration Shy Mellow

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“While thinking when sober, our success at reaching our goals by using the First Baltic Front troops, the Memel operation, it can't be disregarded, that the troops not only honorably accomplished their powerful strategic operation, but also an infusion of victory for the Soviet armed forces and an entrance into the final stages of the war.”

Thinking Firsts War Force Goal Powerful Stage Fronts Victory Finals Operations Accomplished Reaching Soviet Troops Sober Strategic Entrances Armed Forces Disregarded Infusion

Author:Ivan Bagramyan

“I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me.”

Thinking Men Want Mean Fronts Football Throwing Yards

Author:Alec Baldwin

“It's nerve-wracking singing in front of people. I think that's why most people get drunk for karaoke.”

People Thinking Fronts Singing Drunk Nerves Karaoke

Author:Emily Blunt

“When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there's 85% women. I think R&B music is sort of designed for a man singing to a woman. I don't sing it like the sexy thing, but sort of pseudo-sexy. We rally the women together because it's about being independent and things like that.”

Thinking Men Looks Together Song Audience Fronts Music Is Singing Independent Sexy Pseudo

Author:Jamie Foxx

“My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.”

Thinking I Can Done Moments Kids Hate Waiting Watches Fronts Tvs Sitting I Hate

Author:Natascha McElhone

“Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.”

Thinking Acting Audience Fronts Cameras Sense Of Humor Good Acting

Author:Charles Grodin

“I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, I could get used to this. And I just never stopped.”

Thinking Littles Self Remember Faces Used Parent Half Fronts Walking Crowds Applause Folding Walking Out

Author:Dallas Roberts

“I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.”

Thinking I Can Enjoy Challenges Audience Fronts Materials Singing Performing Learning New

Author:Lea Salonga

“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.”

Thinking Mean Persons Might Knowing Subjects Fronts Photograph Landscape Involvement Snapping

Author:Frans Lanting

“I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But thats only because people only see that side of me when Im at work, in front of the camera. So they dont see Miranda at home; they dont see behind the scenes. They see the glamour of it all but they dont see Miranda standing barefoot in a dirty old house.”

People Thinking Knows Home House Sides Behinds Fronts Scene Perception Standing Cameras Dirty Confused Be You Glamour Behind The Scenes Barefoot Old Houses Miranda

Author:Miranda Kerr

“I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.”

Thinking Can Do Fire Fronts Staring Making Love Fireplaces

Author:Rex Stout

“Its so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. Its like the worlds weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, Who is this tool standing up in front of us?”

Thinking Knows World School Walks Fronts Students Standing Tools Blind Classroom Auditoriums Blind Date

Author:Libba Bray

“I would never discredit anyone that is working their way up on a show like "American Idol." I think they work so hard overcoming all of the obstacles to get on the show in the first place and then every week they are judged in front of all of America... I give them complete credit for getting up on stage... I think they deserve all the success that they get.”

Thinking Way Giving Firsts Hard Shows America Week Stage Fronts Deserve Overcoming Obstacles Credit Judged Idols Discredit American Idol

Author:Mandy Moore

“The Hindus are busy letting themselves be seen riding in Cadillacs instead of smearing themselves with sandalwood paste and bowing in front of Ganpati. The Moslems would rather miss evening prayer than the new Disney movie. The Buddhists think it's more important to take over in the name of Stalin and Progress than to meditate on the four basic sorrows. And we don't even have to mention Christianity or Judaism.”

Thinking Important Names Prayer Christianity Four Progress Missing Fronts Sorrow Busy Buddhist Evening Riding Judaism Cadillacs Sandalwood Evening Prayer

Book:The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House

Source: The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House

“But what I could see out of the corner of my eye made me think of two lovely bundles of silk floating along a stream. In a moment they were hovering on the walkway in front of me, where they sank down and smoothed their kimono across their knees.”

Thinking Made Two Moments Eye Fronts Down And Corners Lovely Knees Streams Floating Silk Bundles Hovering Kimonos Walkways

Author:Arthur Golden

“I think honesty is the ultimate liberation in life. People want to shy away from the truth and keep sweeping it under the rug. But after a while, you pick up the rug and there's just way too much dirt, so you might as well just be up front about it.”

People Thinking Way Want Wells Might Too Much Fronts Honesty Picks Ultimate Liberation Shy Dirt Sweeping

Author:Rihanna

“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.”

Thinking Persons Real Bigs Simple Fronts Lessons Intelligent Scripts Engines Underestimate Hood Intelligent Person

Author:Eugene Jarecki

“Fear is crippling. Fear of the future can convince us that there is no way out and nothing is ever going to get better. Fear is blinding; it can make us miss the warning signs flashing right in front of our eyes. It can also make you miss those brilliant flashes of color, when the world isn't so gray. But, if you think about it, being afraid isn't such a bad thing. Because fear is a reminder that you still have something to lose. Something worth holding onto.”

“I feel like I express myself, as an actor. Whatever the character is put in front of me, I try to bring truth to it, whichever way it lands. I try to bring as much truth to it and make it as believable as I can. I think that's the job of an actor.”

Thinking Way Feels Trying I Can Character Jobs Actors Land Fronts Believable

Author:Tyler Perry

“On my way to the office in the morning, there are, in front of me, behind me, other men going to their jobs. I see them; if I dared, I would smile at them. I think to myself that I am a socialist, that they are the purpose of my life, of my efforts and that they do not know it yet.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Way Jobs Purpose Effort Behinds Morning Fronts Office Communism My Way Socialist

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not to bar Our passage to our journey's end for good, But just to ask us who we think we are.”

Thinking Ends Asks Tree Journey Fronts Obstacles Woods Bars Passages Crash Tempest

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands, doing all of the kind of backstage stuff, and I didn't even think for a second I could do it, and then I saw Babes in Toyland, and all that changed.”

Thinking Kind Guy Stuff Saws Fronts Changed Band Babe Sticker

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“To fight oppression, and to work as best we can for a sane organization of society, we do not have to abandon the state of mind offreedom. If we do that we are letting the same thuggery in by the back door that we are fighting off in front of the house.”

Ifs Thinking Mind States Fighting House Doors Fronts Organization Oppression Thoughtful Abandon State Of Mind Sane Freedom Of Speech Back Doors

Book:John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

“[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture -- in front of us -- our own little mirage that we think is the future.”

Thinking Littles Fronts Circles March Mirages

Book:A Raisin in the Sun

Source: A Raisin in the Sun

“You may be a redneck if . . . you think you are an entrepreneur because of the "Dirt for Sale" sign in the front yard.”

Ifs Thinking May Fronts Entrepreneur Dirt Yards Redneck Redneck Humor

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I can't think of anything until I've got printed words in front of me. I never wake up in the middle of the night with a song in my head.”

Thinking I Can Night Song Middle Fronts Wake Up Printed Middle Of The Night Printed Word

Author:Elton John

“I think that most of the action in religion is around the home, is in families, and is in individual lives, and they can go on their own searches, watch their own TV shows, read their own books, form their own groups and discuss it, but that's where the action is - on the home front.”

Thinking Book Shows Home Action Form Individual Watches Groups Fronts Tvs Goes On Tv Shows Individual Life

Author:Bruce Feiler

“In The 3rd Alternative, Stephen Covey urges us to chart a course beyond the suboptimal solutions to all our crises - beyond left and right, and beyond the many false choices in front of us. The 3rdAlternative is a wise and welcome echo of Einstein's warning that the problems we're facing today cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.”

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Author:Arianna Huffington

“I do sit-ups and push-ups at home, and that's about it. I have a gym card, but I never go there. It's a front. I pay for the membership every couple of years, thinking I'll be embarrassed enough to go. But every time I go, there's like people twice my age that look twice as good!”

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Author:Rachael Ray

“CBGB was a wild place, ... The first time I ever played there was in 1987, I think, with my hardcore band, Scream. And I remember the craziest [thing] about that club was you could be in front of the stage and it could be louder than any show you've ever been to in your life. But if you were towards the back of the club at the bar, you could sit and have a conversation with someone. It was the weirdest thing to me.”

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Author:Dave Grohl

“I think the work in front of us is the first work task given our forbearers, which is to care for the garden. Now because it's the first thing commanded, maybe it's the first thing forgotten. But it is the first admonition and it is absolutely unequivocal. It is part of right livelihood.”

Thinking Firsts Care Given Fronts Garden Tasks Environmental Forgotten Stewardship Livelihood Admonition Unequivocal

Author:Wes Jackson

“I've always loved those movies where somebody thinks they want something, and then they realize that the thing they really want is right in front of them.”

Thinking Want Realizing Fronts Want Something

Author:John Krasinski

“I think there's nothing worse than telling actors what to do in front of everyone, because then on the next take, everyone's waiting to see if you do that ... Everyone watches. It's just the worst thing.”

Ifs Thinking Next Actors Waiting Watches Worst Fronts Worst Things

Author:Richard Ayoade

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