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• Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

  Neil Peart

  People, Different, Matter

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• Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.

  E. Lockhart

  Rooms, Winner, Seats

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.68, Delacorte Press

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• Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.

  Toyo Ito

  Running, Children, Games

  "Japanese architect on brink of stardom" by Nicolai Ouroussoff, www.sfgate.com. July 26, 2009.

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• I waited a long time, an hour or two, to make that picture perfect. But I wasn't totally satisfied. Then, when I'd finished the shoot, they were about to leave and they suddenly hugged in front of a radiator. I took my camera and that was the picture that ran everywhere - it was spontaneous emotion you could see they were completely in love.

  Mario Testino

  Two, Long, Perfect

  "Kate & William’s Engagement Photo Was ‘Spontaneous Emotion,’ Says Photographer" By Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2014.

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• When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches for the front. But soon events assumed such gigantic and far-reaching scope as to demand larger canvasses.

  Sergei Prokofiev

  Song, War, Events

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• Most of us use ‘I’m waiting for God to reveal His calling on my life’ as a means of avoiding action.  Did you hear God calling you to sit in front of the television yesterday?  Or to go on your last vacation?  Or exercise this morning?  Probably not, but you still did it.  The point isn’t that vacations or exercise are wrong, but that we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving  God.

  Francis Chan

  Morning, Mean, Exercise

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.169, David C Cook

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• In the 1970s and a lot of the 1980s, we would have thanked our lucky stars in the coalfield areas for growth of 1.75 per cent. The only thing growing then were the lines of coke in front of boy George and the rest of them.

  Dennis Skinner

  Stars, Boys, Growth

  Dennis Skinner during House of Commons Debates, publications.parliament.uk. December 8, 2005.

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• We are all dangling in mid-process between what already happened (which is just a memory) and what might happen (which is just an idea). Now is the only time anything happens. When we are awake in our lives, we know what's happening. When we're asleep, we don't see what's right in front of us.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Memories, Ideas, Might

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.87, Ballantine Books

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• Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington -- it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. ...This is your victory.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Victory, Backyards

  President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

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• But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil and live in want and misery - the wage slaves - expect salvation - if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread upon a spark, but there, and there, and behind you and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out.

  August Spies

  Work, Thinking, Flames

  Address of August Spies. "The Accused the Accusers: Famous Speeches of the Chicago Anarchists in Court", www.chicagohistoryresources.org. 1886.

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• All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Thinking, Years, Understanding

  Song: Understanding Nothing, Album: Big Circumstance

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• The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.

  Florence Welch

  People, Judgement, Stage

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• I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter or anybody else's wife.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Daughter, Wife, Used

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• People feared snowstorms once. Hazel read about this all the time. Pioneers opened their front doors and saw they'd been entombed in snow overnight. They walked across malevolent swirling whiteness and did not know if they would survive. Nature can destroy us in a blink. We live on only at its pleasure. That was what looking at the witch was like.

  Anne Ursu

  Doors, People, Snow

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• I found out everybody's different--the same kind of different as me. We're all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us.

  Denver Moore

  Different, Done, Kind

  Ron Hall, Denver Moore (2008). “Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together”, p.235, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I think I've been on a path ever since I was born, a path of high stress. I put myself, my career, it was a big old juicy carrot right in front of me for all of my life.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Stress, Thinking, Careers

  "Melissa Etheridge's anthem of hope". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. October 16, 2005.

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• Hi. My name is Debby, and I am a storyteller. I don't think of myself as an actress. I am more like a face that takes words on a page, and puts them in front of your eyes.

  Debby Ryan

  Eye, Thinking, Names

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• Practicing going over scenes and in front of the camera just to see how that feels, and then ultimately just finding a way to expose yourself to people. That’s what I did.

  Bridgit Mendler

  People, Cameras, Way

  "Bridgit Mendler Talks New Season Of ‘Good Luck Charlie’ And Shares Advice For Aspiring Teen Actors". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2013.

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• To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

  Roberto Benigni

  Lying, Acting, Principles

  "Does this man really think the Holocaust was a big joke?" by Roberto Benigni, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 1999.

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• I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me. I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

  Roger Daltrey

  Art, Live Life, Age

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• Writing a screenplay is like climbing a mountain. When you’re climbing, all you can see is the rock in front of you and the rock directly above you. You can’t see where you’ve come from or where you’re going.

  Syd Field

  Writing, Rocks, Climbing

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• It is hot in Tokyo, it’s humid, I’m tired, all of these backs are in front of you, I’m not going to make the team anyway so screw it. I remember going back and I called down to the desk. I was asking about some flights out of there.

  Terrell Davis

  Team, Tired, Hot

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• I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.

  Ernst Toller

  Mean, Perception, Months

  Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”

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• I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

  Fiona Shaw

  Mother, Order, Singing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.

  Ardant du Picq

  Military, Men, Enemy

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.422, Lulu.com

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