Stand-up used to be much more of a form combat. Heckling was much more common [in the '90s]. And I couldn't get… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not… — Eric Bristow Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family full of yellers. People screaming and chaos goin' on, I feel right at home in it.… — Art Alexakis Copy Share Image
In fact, I became popular in Kerala after I took part in a reality dance show and despite making my foray into… — Shamna Kasim Copy Share Image
Comedians act every night on stage, so they have great performing chops. They especially know how to play themselves, which is how… — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
The cinema is a very truthful medium because the camera doesn't let you get away with anything. On stage, you can even… — James Dean Copy Share Image
I have the utmost respect for Joe Rogan. I think he does his job better than anybody else could. I just think… — Shawn Tompkins Copy Share Image
In any performance, you're on stage for two hours, and there's 40 seconds or maybe a whole five minutes where you feel… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word 'wife' on stage is because it seems a funny word… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
So even these stages of progression, whether it's your career or whatever, you get somewhere, but then it always brings a new… — Steve Zissis Copy Share Image
Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
We planted the church by starting a Sunday night outreach. The very first Sunday we had 70 people turn up. The second… — Brian Houston Copy Share Image
It's been an incredible few weeks for Emma Pooley, first winning three stages in the Giro Rosa to demonstrate that she's the… — Emma Pooley Copy Share Image
Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak,… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I have been tested. I have beaten breast cancer. I have buried a child. I started as a secretary. I fought my… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you… — Kristi Yamaguchi Copy Share Image
When people asked me, "Do you get high to go onstage?" I could never understand the question. I mean, I'd been high… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
When we finished 'Stop Making Sense,' we went right to the San Francisco Film Festival for the world premiere, and people swarmed… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
Marxism represents a further vital and creative stage in the maturing of man's universal vision... The nation-state is gradually yielding its sovereignty...… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
An individual's refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom was falling hair. Diarrhea and fever, which… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds,… — Christina Applegate Copy Share Image
The relationship between the audience and the dancers goes through many different stages. Someone seeing my work for the first time may… — Lucinda Childs Copy Share Image
There is such little tolerance for women on the national stage who don't agree with the hosts of 'The View' or celebrities… — Abby Johnson Copy Share Image
Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to… — Amy Hoggart Copy Share Image
I wear whatever makes me comfortable on stage, so that I feel confident. Some days it's a plaid skirt with a button-up… — Sky Ferreira Copy Share Image
But on stage you're able to just take the character from one point to the end and it's a fluid, organic piece.… — Renee O'Connor Copy Share Image
I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening… — Emun Elliott Copy Share Image
As for super-stardom, I can say that I'm ready for anything. I feel like I've mastered so many stages in my life… — Aeriel Miranda Copy Share Image
As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Morality is not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
When I'm on stage, that's a job. It's acting, it's faking, just making fun of yourself, telling bad jokes - I'm pretty… — Stromae Copy Share Image
When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of… — Dinah Sheridan Copy Share Image
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