“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.” PeopleThinkingGivingSometimesHardBigsArtistThreeOpportunityRoomsMinutesHopefullyMealsShowersImpressDressingsSuitableDressing RoomsNew Artists Author:David Nail
“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."” ThinkingWayGivingLooksBookMatterHardDoneWholeHoursWalksRoomsBehindsWeekKeysPersonalityPagesWhole LifeGrayTraitsSister Author:Eleanor Brown
“Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.” ThinkingWritingSometimesRunningRomanceLeftSoundRoomsTypewriters Author:Gene Fowler
“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.” PeopleThinkingRoomsSituationAuditionsCasting Author:Missi Pyle
“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.” PeopleThinkingRoomsLaughingComedyJokesSittingResponseZoneTwilightSubjectiveVisceralPersonal ThingsTwilight Zone 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?” PeopleThinkingMomentsUsedWalksRoomsOne DayI RealizedLike Me Author:Victoria Principal
“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.” PeopleThinkingMindImportantSometimesStatesCertainDarkWalksRoomsWorryMovementAmountSittingFighterState Of MindLockedBoxersLocked UpDark Room Author:Emanuel Steward
“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.” ThinkingKnowsWritingMeanArtRealityLosesSpaceRoomsKnow HowFilledIntentionSmellStuckRoughAbandonedVolumeCavesArrowsTunnelsMean Words Author:Susan Sontag
“Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.” PeopleThinkingHardFeltRoomsFictionConflictConfusionJournalismContradictionInternalsCaptureAmbivalenceInternal Conflict Author:Amy Waldman
“I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?” PeopleThinkingWritingSometimesKidsWhiteRoomsDegreesWindowMachinesSilentCornersNoiseBagsTrashWhite Noise Author:Jennifer Weiner
“I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.” PeopleThinkingWayLittlesSongCan DoRoomsListenersDisservice Author:St. Vincent