“I think the idea of being on stage and playing for people, and being able to inject a little bit of joy into their lives is a really exciting concept for me. That's definitely why I make music. It's never been for any kind of materialistic reasons, so that thought of being able to be up on stage, and being able to give something to someone in a moment of need for them - that gets me up in the morning; that really excites me.” PeopleThinkingNeedsGivingKindLittlesIdeasReasonMomentsAbleLife IsJoyBitsMorningStageLittle BitConceptsExcitingMaterialistic Author:Kimbra
“Just giving the people a great show, leaving it all on the stage. Like when I'm finished I don't want to go home with nothing, I want to leave it all there on the stage, that's what I'm thinking about before I hit the stage.” PeopleThinkingWantGivingShowsHomeStageLeavingFinished Author:Snoop Dogg
“We have to put America's security first. The American people - we on this stage need to open our ears. We need to open our ears. The American people are not whispering to us. They are screaming to us. And they're screaming to us that it's our job to actually make this government work.It's so dysfunctional under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. It's so ineffective. It's so ineffectual that the American people say, we don't trust them to do anything anymore. So I'm not going to let Syrian refugees, any Syrian refugees in this country.” PeopleNeedsFirstsCountryGovernmentJobsAmericaStageSecurityEarsClintonBarackWorking ItRefugeeWhisperingDon't TrustGovernment WorkSyrian Refugees Author:Chris Christie
“You collaborate with actors who are also talented and visionary and come together on a artistic direction within the confines of humanity and realism. The collaboration that you have had with all of these people plays an integral role in its final stage where editing and music are combine to enhance your work. This whole process is very rewarding and I wouldn't trade it for anything.” PeoplePlayWholeTogetherHumanityActorsProcessRolesStageTradeFinalsArtisticCollaborationRealismEditingVisionaries Author:Ruth E. Carter
“I enjoy going on stage knowing that there's going to be that vulnerability and that transparency and hopefully things will be realized or accomplished or that confidence will be revealed. I think that's another element that people like about shows: in addition to hearing the songs that they love, I think there are some people who really get off on connecting with what's happening right now.” PeopleThinkingShowsSongEnjoyKnowingStageRight NowElementsHappeningsHearingHopefullyVulnerabilityAccomplishedConnectingTransparency Author:Jason Mraz
“There's never been a film with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the center released in theaters. Ever! One does not exist. You've only seen tele-films and stage plays about him. Yet, we have big screens biopics about all kinds of people. So, I think it's only right that there be a full-length feature about Dr. King. I don't think there could be enough of them, but there should be at least one. So, here it is!” PeopleThinkingShouldKindDoeEnoughPlayBigsFilmStageKingsTheaterScreensAll KindsFeaturesLengthDrsLutherBig ScreenDr Martin Luther KingStage Play Author:Ava DuVernay
“People don't want to see the guy next door on the stage, they want to see a being from another planet. You want to see somebody you'd never meet in ordinary life.” PeopleWantGuyNextDoorsStagePlanetsOrdinaryOrdinary Life Author:Lemmy Kilmister
“I don't understand how a musician can play 90 minutes on stage and then not dedicate a little bit of time to hang out at their merch table. It's not like digging a ditch or something; you're standing there thanking people for coming out to see you.” PeopleLittlesPlayBitsMinutesStageLittle BitMusicianStandingTablesHanging OutComing OutDiggingStanding There Author:Aaron Watson
“I'm happy about working; I'm happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh. I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It's the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.” PeopleWayFeelsKidsJobsLaughingStageTreatsStoresBest ThingsComing OutCandyMaking People LaughCandy Stores Author:Kevin Hart
“Good diet and exercise are key, but abject fear has its own rewards. And arriving on the first day for rehearsals for Spamalot and seeing all these much younger, much fitter people, who I was going to be on stage with, became a catalyst for cutting out the more unhealthy aspects of my life.” PeopleFirstsCuttingSeeingStageKeysExerciseAspectRewardsDietsRehearsalUnhealthyCatalystArrivingDiet And Exercise Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar
“The Rolling Stones were an inkling towards an appreciation of the unity of music, dance and words. Any of the black R&B people who had a stage show that involved dancing, music and words did the same thing, except that I thought Jagger's words were good, his music was good and his dancing was good. I spoke to him about Blake and tried to get him to sing [William] Blake's The Grey Monk, to use his words as lyrics. He didn't do it. In the end, I did it myself.” PeopleEndsUseShowsBlackStageInvolvedStonesDancingUnityAppreciationSpokesRollingGreyMonkRolling StonesBlakeJagger Author:Allen Ginsberg
“I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day so instead I play golf with other unemployed actors. I'm a member of the Stage Golfing Society and I play golf with all sorts of people.” PeoplePlayActorsFoundStageMembersGolfSavedUnemployedGolfingPubs Author:Phil Daniels
“I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage I'm that confident and that cocky, because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh.” PeopleThinkingKnowsRealHandsMistakeLaughingStageThousandReal LifeStaringMicrophonesCockyCockiness Author:Russell Peters
“My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.” PeopleSoulLastsKnownDoubtStageMy FriendsDiedVariousRememberedBlessRealisticDedicated Author:John Scott
“I would much rather not be the center of attention, and I'd much rather travel and be writing my novel, rather than standing on a stage and trying to get people to understand something.” PeopleWritingTryingAttentionNovelStageStandingCenter Of Attention Author:Willis Earl Beal
“Among the many things that profoundly impress me about the Dalai Lama, quite high up on the list is his ability to say "I don't know". I've often wished that other people in prominent positions wouldn't feel the compulsion to have an answer for everything and would feel equally free to say "I don't know." It's a sign of wisdom to know that you don't know and a sign of stupidity to think that you know everything. I admire it enormously in him, and wonder why so few people in leading positions reach that stage.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsAbilityAnswersWonderStagePositionStupidityListsAdmireImpressCompulsionProminentLamaDalai Author:David Steindl-Rast
“How can we speak of Democracy or Freedom when from the very beginning of life we mould the child to undergo tyranny, to obey a dictator? How can we expect democracy when we have reared slaves? Real freedom begins at the beginning of life, not at the adult stage. These people who have been diminished in their powers, made short-sighted, devitalized by mental fatigue, whose bodies have become distorted, whose wills have been broken by elders who say: "your will must disappear and mine prevail!"-how can we expect them, when school-life is finished, to accept and use the rights of freedom?” PeopleChildrenHas BeensMadeRealUseBodySchoolLife IsSpeakAcceptingDemocracyRightsStageMinesBrokenAdultsSlaveFinishedDisappearTyrannyDictatorEldersFatigueMouldSchool LifeShort SightedReal FreedomBeginning Of Life Author:Maria Montessori
“People read a lot of stories about witches, fairies, paranormals, and children possessed by evil spirits. They go to films showing rituals featuring pentagrams, swords, and invocations. That's fine, people need to give free reign to their imagination and to go through certain stages. Anyone who gets through those stages without being deceived will eventually get in touch with the Tradition.” PeopleNeedsGivingChildrenStoriesFilmSpiritCertainEvilImaginationStageFineTraditionParanormalFairyRitualWitchPossessedReignDeceivedEvil SpiritsInvocationBeing DeceivedPentagrams Author:Paulo Coelho
“Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without any help. I don't know if I read it right, but it was hilarious! I laughed constantly! I didn't know what was going on for whole blocks but it didn't matter because I wasn't going to be graded on it. I think the reason why everyone still has so much fun with Shakespeare is because he didn't have any literary critic. He was just doing it; and there were no reviews except for people throwing stuff on stage. He could just do it.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsStillsSometimesMatterReasonWholeHelpingSchoolReadingFunStuffStageFortuneCriticsBlockReason WhyReviewsThrowingLaughedGraduatesGood FortuneJust Do ItGraduate SchoolJoyceFinnegans Wake Author:Toni Morrison
“There are tons of businesses that exist in the United States. An insane number of people who are in business for themselves. And then there are people on board feeling they're at key early stages of companies.” PeopleStatesFeelingsUnitedNumbersCompanyUnited StatesStageKeysInsaneBoards Author:Alex Blumberg
“To make music I rely on other people, which is good - that's the main difference in painting and music at this stage. They are separate parts of my life really, like having two jobs, one in a bar, one in a lighthouse.” PeopleTwoJobsDifferencesStagePaintingBarsRelyLighthouseTwo Jobs Author:Danny Fox
“I don't like the theatre. I like plays in which the audience is addressed by the actors. I don't like seeing people talking to each other on stage as if there isn't an audience.” PeopleIfsPlayActorsTalkingAudienceSeeingStageTheatrePeople Talking Author:Jonathan Meades
“Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.” PeopleSometimesStageFortunate Author:Bryan Ferry
“How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?” PeopleHomeInfluenceStageBack Home Author:Kendrick Lamar
“Lately I've been really into screaming a lot through delay [effects], having seven people on stage topless going crazy, stuff like that. Really in your face, but maybe more organic than choreographed dance moves.” PeopleFacesMovingStuffCrazyEffectsStageSevenYour FaceDelayGoing CrazyDance Moves Author:Grimes