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Leo Kottke Quotes

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 11, 1945

Topics

Attention You Place Will Audience

It's funny when you follow your own sort of bliss, then other people tend to respond in kind, meaning audiences. It's really weird how that works, but it does seem to apply to 'Nancy & Beth' especially.

Funny People Weird Meaning You Kind

My dad's a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.

Business Time Growing Up End Growing

The nuclear deal with Iran's radical clerics and their military junta is the most dangerous and potentially deadly action that the Obama administration has yet taken.

Action Dangerous Military Radical

To me, freedom of speech and debate are necessary inputs in solving any of our nation's problems, from homelessness and economic inequality to banking, the environment, and national security. Freedom of speech is what Larry Lessig would call a 'root' issue; working on free speech is striking at a root issue.

Freedom Me Free Problems Security

Anytime you're in fear for your life, it's intense.

Life Fear You Intense Your Anytime

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Family God Compassion You Dream Us

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.

Truth Experience Lie End You Play

I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of belong to the fashion industry, which is why I'm part of the fashion industry. But that's never been my thought. My thought since I was a child was really to design those shoes for girls on stage.

Christian Louboutin

Work Shoes Child Fashion Thought

I just eat healthy and try not to eat late at night. And I exercise as well. That's a big change for me; I work out a lot.

Work Change Me Night Exercise Late

I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.

Mother Son Time Me Looking Career

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

William Lloyd Garrison

Death Hell Agreement Between North

If you've grown up with guns, the thought that someone might take them away makes your stomach churn. They make you feel safe. If you didn't grow up with guns, if you don't know how to use them, then the thought that someone else has them makes your stomach churn.

Thought Grow Feel Someone You Know

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