“It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on the front lawn. Dad loved classical music and we might be listening to some Stravinsky or something and having some tea and eggs. And he'd say, 'Oh, good stuff, isn't it?'” MightUsedStuffSimpleFrontsListeningDadSittingTeaEggsClassical MusicLawnsStravinsky Author:Jennifer Grant
“I ask my assistants if they're retarded all the time. When the camera is on you, of course, actors have the ability to make it real. For me, if I'm not talking, it is a problem. I have so much more respect for actors after being in front of the camera, and I realize that the hardest part is when you're not talking. Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.” IfsRealProblemCoursesActorsAsksRealizingAbilityActingTalkingFrontsListeningHarderCamerasHardestAssistantsNot TalkingRetarded Author:Brett Ratner
“The thing about being an artist is that you evolve so quickly, you grow, you learn, you change, you find yourself hating work that you made months prior. That's the hard part about making an album, but every couple days I fall asleep listening to my album front to back and I lay there feeling so proud of what I did.” MadeHardFeelingsArtistHateFallGrowsFrontsListeningMonthsProudCoupleLaysAlbumsEvolveFinding YourselfBeing An Artist Author:Halsey
“The audience is invisible and that's good. Somewhere my voice is drifting through a swine barn and the sound of it seems to perk up the sows' appetite. Or a lady is listening on headphones as she jogs along a beach, running to my cadence. Or a dog sits in front of the radio, head cocked, and the sibilants excite him in some mysterious way. A dog's humorist, that's me.” WaySeemsRunningSoundVoiceAudienceDogFrontsListeningRadioInvisibleMysteriousBeachAppetiteDriftingHumoristsPerksBarnsCadenceSwineHeadphonesMysterious Ways Author:Garrison Keillor
“People fascinate the hell out of me. I never get tired of watching people, listening to people. The best part is not getting up in front of people but meeting people.” PeopleHellFrontsListeningTiredMeetings Author:Andre Dubus
“When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the crowd listening, that was hard.” EndsHardSongAudienceFrontsListeningProjectsCrowdsStoryteller Author:Jens Lekman
“The competitiveness, playing in front of 18-19,000 people every single night, people asking for my autograph, getting recognized, being able to do something like this with Sega and being on the front of a box, and being involved in video games, and listening to movies where they reference my name like in Swingers. All these things they make life so exciting, you don't know what to expect next.” PeopleKnowsAbleNightNextGamesNamesFrontsListeningInvolvedExcitingAskingBoxesVideoAutographsCompetitiveness Author:Jeremy Roenick
“In fact, now for whatever reason, if we're recording in the same room, I get a little distracted because I'm watching the actor instead of listening to the actor. The way we do it now, they're on the phone, and we're sitting here with scripts in front of us taking notes seriously and marking takes and doing some adlibs. I can really focus on the words and not the surroundings.” IfsWayLittlesI CanReasonFactsActorsRoomsFocusFrontsListeningSittingNotesScriptsPhonesSurroundingsDistracted Author:Adam Reed
“Instead of taking care to acquaint ourselves with others, we only think of making ourselves known to them. It would be better to listen to other people in order to become enlightened rather than to speak so as to shine in front of them.” PeopleThinkingWould BeCareOrderSpeakKnownFrontsListeningShiningEnlightened Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“I was raised by my grandmother. She had a very difficult time, raised all her kids, my father and everybody. Listening to those stories and finding her so strong, poised. Anybody who came close to her was made to feel blessed. And at the same time, it didn't matter how strong a person was, in front of her, their head would go down. She carried through her life raising everybody. That is my model.” FeelsPersonsMadeMatterStoriesKidsFatherStrongDifficultFrontsListeningFindingsModelsBlessedRaisedGrandmotherMy GrandmotherDifficult Times Author:Rajashree Choudhury
“[Buckminster Fuller] was quite willing to talk. He'd talk at the drop of a hat.I learned to talk in front of people by listening to the way he did things. Because he would give lessons in how to lecture. He would say, "Never take a note, just stand up and start babbling. And then eventually you're going to be able to make some coherent statements, and so it's like you're vamping. And then people will gradually start to listen to you when this spot of logic shows up in this torrent of verbiage.” PeopleWayGivingShowsAbleFrontsWillingLike YouListeningLessonsLogicNotesStatementsSpotsHatsLecturesBabblingBuckminster Fuller Author:Paul Laffoley
“When I started playing music at East Tennessee State University I would sit on a stool with a tip jar in front of me and play four hours a night at a college bar called Quarterback's Barbecue. I wasn't thinking about doing it for a living. I was just making enough money to go to Taco Bell every day. People were eating chips, drinking beer and not listening to me. I'd had three or four years of people ignoring me, and I'd kind of gotten used to it.” PeopleThinkingYearsKindStatesEnoughPlayUsedNightThreeHoursFourFrontsCollegeListeningEatingDrinkingUniversityEastBarsBeerFour YearsBellsChipsJarsPlaying MusicQuarterbackTennesseeBarbecueDrinking BeerStoolsTacosTaco BellIgnore MeEast Tennessee Author:Kenny Chesney
“Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.” WayMeanDoeEnvironmentFrontsListeningAppreciateSticksTongueTastingLizards Author:William Shatner