Best Rooms Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Author:Adolf Loos

“The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything.”

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Author:Marian McPartland

“A room full of hundreds, let alone thousands, of people is not my most fun thing in the world.”

People World Fun Rooms Fun Things

Author:Paula Malcomson

“I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.”

Years Political Used Father Rooms Party Leader Subjects Members Prison Congress British Fighter Evening Living Room Unfamiliar Prominent Freedom Fighter Locality Congress Party

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes. Then when I hadn't had a hit for three or four years, some of these same people pretended they didn't see me when I walked in the room.”

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Author:Rebecca De Mornay

“I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours.”

People Hours Rooms Military Shooting Promotion Hostage Bikinis Kidnapped Coups Ventilation

Author:Brigitte Nielsen

“As awesome as it is to be with a big act and get three catered meals a day and get a dressing room with an actual shower in it, it's hard sometimes as a new artist to come across in 25 minutes. You get 25 minutes to hopefully impress these people. I think the longer set is more suitable for us and gives us an opportunity to connect better.”

People Thinking Giving Sometimes Hard Bigs Artist Three Opportunity Rooms Minutes Hopefully Meals Showers Impress Dressings Suitable Dressing Rooms New Artists

Author:David Nail

“I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass!”

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Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.”

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Author:Randy Newman

“I closed my eyes. The only things I knew about why Empty Ones worked the way we did was that we had room for extra souls because we started out with less, and that we could make gates because of our innately human sense of home. But my home was here. How on earth was I supposed to find another one?The gate needs to be opened and closed before dawn, Cresseda said, a hint of strain flowing through her voice.YES. THANKS FOR THAT. VERY HELPFUL RIGHT NOW.”

Way Needs Humans Said Soul Home Eye Earth Voice Rooms Right Now Empty Thanks Dawn Extras Helpful Gates Strain Hints

Author:Kiersten White

“In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.”

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Author:Junior Seau

“She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it."”

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Author:Eleanor Brown

“Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.”

Thinking Writing Sometimes Running Romance Left Sound Rooms Typewriters

Author:Gene Fowler

“Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.”

Knows Looks Mean Book Rooms Education Class Know How Teacher

Author:Chuck Berry

“There's no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?”

God Rooms Separation Almighty Segregation

Author:Ben Harper

“To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.”

World Giving Country States Rooms Numbers Growing Members Developing Developing Countries Enlargement

Author:Anna Lindh

“The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.”

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Author:Al Lopez

“I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.”

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Author:Brie Larson

“I like to be one of those drummers who actually add to the music, not one of those guys who sit in a room 24/7 trying to outwit or outplay another drummer.”

Trying Guy Rooms Add Drummer

Author:Dave Lombardo

“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

“Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene.”

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Author:Amanda Plummer

“When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.”

Sometimes Rooms Models Sitting Paris Flats Casting

Author:Andrej Pejic

“People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.”

People Thinking Rooms Situation Auditions Casting

Author:Missi Pyle

“That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.”

Trying Hard Natural Rooms Shakes Euphoria

Author:Alan Parsons

“Whenever I was with Kevin Pollak, I had to leave the room.”

Rooms Kevin

Author:Amanda Peet

“After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't.”

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Author:John L. Phillips

“There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it.”

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Author:Michael Pitt

“Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.”

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Author:Todd Phillips

“There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?”

People Thinking Moments Used Walks Rooms One Day I Realized Like Me

Author:Victoria Principal

“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 find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.”

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Author:Nikki Reed

“I know you're not supposed to have TV in your room, but I like watching a little. I need something mindless.”

Knows Needs Littles Rooms Tvs Mindless Your Room

Author:Rebecca Romijn

“There's always some room for improvisation.”

Rooms Improvisation

Book:Satyajit Ray: Interviews

Source: Satyajit Ray: Interviews

“The state of mind of a fighter is so important. I don't like to see a fighter stay locked up in a room. Sometimes it works against them. They think and they worry. They dwell, sitting in that dark room. You come back and they're psyched out. I like to see boxers eat and then walk, mingle with people. You have to have a certain amount of movement.”

People Thinking Mind Important Sometimes States Certain Dark Walks Rooms Worry Movement Amount Sitting Fighter State Of Mind Locked Boxers Locked Up Dark Room

Author:Emanuel Steward

“As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.”

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Author:Jonathan Stroud

“I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.”

Kids Wanted Rooms Sat Cartoonist

Author:Michael Stuhlbarg

“You know, I find people with great honesty, bodily, physical honesty, who sit just the way they like to sit, and walk the way they like to walk, and don't come into a room all pumped up, I find them elegant.”

People Knows Way Walks Rooms Honesty Elegant

Author:Alexander Siddig

“I'd rather have a part where you walk into a room and you leave. That's perfect for me.”

Walks Perfect Rooms Perfect For Me

Author:Amy Sedaris

“No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.”

Rooms Sweatpants

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“Unfortunately, when you're an actor you have to act. It's not like you can sit in your living room, your bedroom, your study or whatever and act with yourself. It requires having somebody to respond to.”

Actors Rooms Study Like You Bedroom Living Room

Author:Chris Sarandon

“My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.”

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Author:Danny Strong

“I mean, there'll always be room for big productions and everything but it's good to see the other side.”

Mean Bigs Sides Rooms Productions

Author:Emeli Sande

“A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.”

People Play Song Rooms Drawing Piano

Author:Fiona Shaw

“If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.”

Ifs Believe Happens Interesting Rooms Nuts

Author:George Saunders

“You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.”

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Author:George Steinbrenner

“I'm not the guy who bursts into the room. I'm the most insecure person you'll meet if you get to know me.”

Ifs Knows Persons Guy Rooms Know Me Insecure Get To Know Me Insecure Person

Author:John Stamos

“We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous, more general the word, the more they can also resemble rooms or tunnels. They can expand, or cave in. They can come to be filled with a bad smell. They will often remind us of other rooms, where we'd rather dwell or where we think we are already living. They can be spaces we lose the art or the wisdom of inhabiting. And eventually those volumes of mental intention we no longer know how to inhabit will be abandoned, boarded up, closed down.”

Thinking Knows Writing Mean Art Reality Loses Space Rooms Know How Filled Intention Smell Stuck Rough Abandoned Volume Caves Arrows Tunnels Mean Words

Author:Susan Sontag

“Sit down and get out a piece of paper and start making lists. Ask yourself, are you in harmony with the things in your life? Are you adopting superficial values? Are you giving your being enough room? Are you doing new and creative things?”

Giving Enough Values Asks Rooms Creative Pieces Buddhism Balance Paper Harmony Down And Lists Superficial Adopting

Author:Frederick Lenz

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