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  • I've been singing with Roomful of Teeth since the beginning in 2009, and it's a really mind-blowingly wonderful vocal ensemble. Very brave and very creative, and they're some of my closest friends. -- Caroline Shaw
  • I just love to make a whole roomful of people laugh. -- Hope Davis
  • I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans. -- Bobby Darin
  • I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family or life story. -- Jojo Moyes
  • Kids are so dynamic; if you're tired and you walk into a roomful of kids, your energy is brought up to their level. -- Jenna Bush
  • Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers. -- Jerry Seinfeld
  • I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time. -- Zubin Mehta
  • I have always been more comfortable with daredevil acts than with the everyday nuances of life. Let me jump out of a plane, speak in front of a roomful of strangers, even trek across Siberia. -- Sarah Kay
  • Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these patterns. -- Danny Elfman
  • I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours. -- Brigitte Nielsen
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  • I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience. -- F. Sionil Jose
  • It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness. -- Paul Merton
  • I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life. -- Frank Miller
  • I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody. -- Robert Pinsky
  • I have a very awesome seat in the house every time I play. When the lights come up, and the sound turns on, I'm playing for a roomful of human beings. And geographical and political borders just all dissolve. And we unite through rhythm inhalation. I mean, I'm so grateful that, you know, audiences around the world connect to English music. -- Jason Mraz
  • When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems. -- Michael Shannon
  • I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans -- Bobby Darin
  • In a roomful of shouting people, the one who whispers becomes interesting. -- Peter Schmidt
  • I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers! -- Tennessee Ernie Ford
  • Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos! -- Ellen Kushner
  • I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. -- James Joyce
  • I don't do group sex. I don't like being in a roomful of all my homeys giving high-fives and yelling, 'Switch!' -- Tyrese Gibson
  • A whole roomful of Jews is like a charged battery. The vitality sparks seem to fly, and frequently the result is a short circuit. -- Edna Ferber
  • Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions. -- Robert Townsend
  • I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time. -- Lisa Kleypas
  • On one level, a roomful of men is always a dangerous thing. Competition is usually in the air, so the potential for violence is always nearby. -- Brennan Manning
  • I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious people. -- Peter Cameron
  • If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
  • There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man - if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful of notes that he has got drunk on. -- Wyndham Lewis
  • It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to. -- Sophie Kinsella
  • I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment. -- Susanna Clarke
  • Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities. -- Gary Smalley
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