Tickets Quotes - Page 13

• I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

  Alex Ferguson

  Sympathy, Soccer, Class

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• I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Jobs, New Orleans, Phones

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• If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of scribbled comments, a name on the fly-leaf, a bus ticket to mark a certain page.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• Cena, love him or not, connects with the ticket buying public better than any one in the biz. End of story.

  Jim Ross

  Wwe, Stories, Buying

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• [Senator]Torricelli [D-NJ] will leave public office with just the clothes on his back, a Rolex watch and other assorted jewelry, a TV set, a couple of racks of Italian suits, some Jets tickets, a grandfather clock and three paper sacks filled with small, unmarked bills.

  Ann Coulter

  Couple, Italian, Clothes

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• They all laughed. I drew their pictures and they asked for copies and I handed them out as if they were my tickets to the show. In the Navy Yard, I could drink with men because I worked with men; in the Parkview, I could drink with men because I drew their pictures. The world was a grand confusion. Finally, when I was bleary, when my hand wouldn't do what I wanted it to do, I went home. I would lie alone in the dark, feeling that I was a character in a story that had lost its plot.

  Pete Hamill

  Lying, Character, Home

  Pete Hamill (1994). “A Drinking Life: A Memoir”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• I spend up to two hours a day on correspondence. Hearing from fans on the Internet and being able to directly respond to the fan base is exciting. You can cut out the middle man like the fan club... before a recent appearance in Tyler, Texas, I had fans reaching out on MySpace offering their lake house, Mavericks tickets. It was amazing.

  Josh Henderson

  Cutting, Men, Two

  "Ex-'Desperate Housewives' Star Josh Henderson Uses the Internet to Try to Save His Character" by Andrea Canning, abcnews.go.com. May 2, 2007.

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• While my friends were discussing Pearl Harbor as the country's problem, I took it personally. It dawned on me that the Japanese attack could be my ticket out of high school.

  Art Buchwald

  Education, Country, School

  Art Buchwald (1994). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Thorndike Pr

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• A man gets on a train with his little boy, and gives the conductor only one ticket. 'How old's your kid?' the conductor says, and the father says, 'He's four years old.' 'He looks at least twelve to me,' says the conductor. And the father says, 'Can I help it if he worries?

  Robert Benchley

  Father, Kids, Boys

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• Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for the yearly ballyhoo, in the metropolitan areas where a Broadway show plays, the local economy is boosted by three and a half times the gross ticket sales. So when we're talking Tonys, we're talking moolah.

  John Lahr

  Awards, Talking, Play

  "Lahr’s Tony Picks: The 2012 Edition". www.newyorker.com.

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• Spending all my remaining money on a ticket to Florence was rendered needlessly complicated by the fact that none of the ticket-sellers had ever heard of the place. At last their supervisor showed up and set them straight by informing them that the city they had always referred to as 'Firenze' was in reality called Florence.

  Clive James

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

  Clive James (2009). “Falling Towards England”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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• You're going to be buying your ticket with your heartache, you're gonna be payin' the man with your dues. You're gonna be living alone when you hear that whistle moan, you're gonna be learnin' to live with the blues.

  Don McLean

  Sadness, Men, Heartache

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• Well, men go to musicals. Women are the ones that buy the tickets for plays.

  John O'Hara

  Men, Play, Men And Women

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• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

  M. Ward

  Happiness, Long, Fame

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• When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accepted. I'm already accepted.

  Joshua Bell

  Play, Needs, Accepted

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• There are some actors that are so gifted, that move you in such a way that every time you see their names again, you go and pay another ticket because you want to have that experience again.

  Demian Bichir

  Moving, Names, Actors

  "Actor Demian Bichir Talks Hollywood, Scarlett, Oscars & Being Latino". Interview with S.J. Main, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2012.

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• I'm a season ticket holder to the Washington Wizards, and I love going to Washington Nationals and Redskins games.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Games, Wizards, Redskins

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• If I wanted the ticket to be a $200 ticket, I'd have made it a $200 ticket, but I don't want it to be that.

  Eric Church

  Want, Made, Ifs

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• I was a hostess, I sold shoes, but I don't function well in jobs that don't have to do with what I love. I have cleaned bathrooms in theaters, I have sold wine in theaters, I have sold tickets, because I will do anything, anything, to stay in this world.

  Nina Arianda

  Jobs, Wine, Shoes

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• The most disappointing thing this week is that Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan, because he was the intellectual leader of the Republican Party. Because Paul Ryan decided to join Mitt Romney's ticket, he is completely reversed himself on some of the issues he has been very strong on, like the $716 billion in savings that are in two of his budgets.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Strong, Party, Two

  "State of the Union with Candy Crowley". www.cnn.com. August 19, 2012.

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• I have consistently made it very clear that I will vote a straight Democratic ticket, just like I do every election. From the local Constable to the President, I will be voting for every Democrat on the ballot.

  Henry Cuellar

  Voting, President, Election

  "Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar plans to vote Obama" by Marin Cogan, www.politico.com. November 18, 2011.

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• I use Twitter as a tool to get involved with people, to sell tickets to gigs where I can stand in a room and smell the audience - and I love that!

  Rob Delaney

  Smell, People, Tools

  "Rob Delaney: 'Twitter has rocketed me to a whole new level of standup'". Interview With Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2012.

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• With Twitter, you just want to make people laugh in their meeting; on stage, people have paid for their tickets with their hard-earned money, so I owe them the truth as I experience it.

  Rob Delaney

  People, Laughing, Want

  "Rob Delaney: 'Twitter has rocketed me to a whole new level of standup'". Interview With Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2012.

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• A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.

  Arne Duncan

  America, Economic, Economic Success

  "Lower Student Loan Interest Rates" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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• Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

  Barry Diller

  Artist, Doe, Nations

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