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I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting. -- Bob Odenkirk
Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue. -- Kate Baldwin
The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey. -- Kathryn Bigelow
Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue. -- DJ Jazzy Jeff
I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue. -- Pete Townshend
My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try. -- Bruce Dickinson
Dubai's world class physical infrastructure has already established it as a major player in terms of trade, tourism and as the leading conference and exhibition venue in this part of the world. -- Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
Every one of us is an artist, and as an artist, you really can stroll into any venue that you want, as long as you take your time to learn the etiquette of that venue. -- Terrence Howard
I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us. -- Henry Rollins
I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions. -- Henry Rollins
I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues. -- Tim Vine
Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue. -- Eric Bana
I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas. -- Cameron Crowe
I believe that the capital of the Republic of Albania is a suitable venue for discussing the dialogue among religions and civilizations, notably in the countries of South East Europe, because we are well familiar with this country's track record of religious tolerance. -- Georgi Parvanov
With stand-up, I can have an idea, go down the street to a comedy club and work on it, flesh it out, book a venue, people will come, then film it. I do all that myself; I never have to answer to anybody. -- Aziz Ansari
Every audience is different, even within the same venue. You have to just make every audience your audience; you can't pre-judge an audience based on the size of the room or the type of room. You've just got to be in the moment and go with it. -- Patton Oswalt
I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone. There's an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it's a different venue. -- Billy Connolly
The Internet has been a great outlet for storytelling. After all, there are web-based shows that have started online and have then gotten picked up. I think it's a great opportunity for artists to get through the network roadblock. It just allows us another venue to be creative in. -- Eva LaRue
You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make. -- Joe Biden
I've forgotten more about bad putting than all the lousy putters in the firmament combined. My mind has been twisted into an incurable, disturbing venue of bad speed and inadequate line. I just want to go out and not feel like I'm putting a Rubik's Cube with a flimsy piece of rope. -- Gary McCord
The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive. -- David Mamet
As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show. -- Henry Rollins
I figure it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy; if I make a successful arena rock record, I'll wind up playing arenas! I wouldn't mind being back in that kind of venue because of the kinds of things you can do with production. You can make your shows more interesting, which would be fun to do. -- Todd Rundgren
Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend leaders of one social niche or another decide the place everyone is socializing has lost its luster or, more important, its exclusivity, they move on to the next one, taking their followers with them. -- Douglas Rushkoff
When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing. -- Moby
People shouldn't read into venue locations someone's heart. -- George W. Bush
The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue. -- Erin Morgenstern
It's a very special venue and a very special occasion. -- Matthew Hayden
I would show up at any venue that had an open mic. -- Ludacris
Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue. -- Dave Chappelle
I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue. -- Neil Innes
The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers. -- Suzy Bogguss
Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency. -- Alan Cohen
If there is one venue where Pakistan can beat Australia, then Adelaide is that ground -- Imran Khan
So much of difference between a triumph and a flop is determined by choice of venue. -- Anatoly Belilovsky
Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
When I am on the road and heading to my next venue, I think about my audience. -- David Copperfield
You're at the hotel and after that you go to the venue and sit there and wait. -- Dave Lombardo
A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel. -- Suzy Bogguss
There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy. -- Mavis Staples
Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect. -- Ian Williams
But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. -- Diane Wakoski
I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue -- Brian De Palma
Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media. -- David Sanborn
It would be really nice to have a venue stop in Japan someday. Japan would be perfect for it. -- Travis Rice
Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue. -- Eric Bana
Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. -- David Foster Wallace
I'm looking forward to getting in Reliant and trying to get a win there. That's a great venue and a wonderful race. -- Ricky Carmichael
It's a great meeting place, community center, art gallery, singles bar, music venue. The record store really covers a lot of ground. -- Gary Calamar
I never played coffee shops; I just played a lot of coffee shop-sized venues. I took every venue I could get my hands on. -- Sara Bareilles
Every show, every audience is different, and I just love leaving the venue feeling like we all know each other a little bit better. -- Martina McBride
In 2012 the best venue I played was Union Chapel in London. It's a beautiful room, the sound is exceptional, and they treated us very well. -- Ron Pope
Any live venue where there is alcohol served and it's past midnight there is gonna be fights. It doesn't matter if it's Hip-Hop, Rock or Jazz. -- Slaine
I've said many times before that Pebble Beach is a wonderful thinking-man's golf course. That is why it is such a great U.S. Open venue. -- Jack Nicklaus
All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him. -- Alain de Botton
But whatever happens, when you leave London you feel like a winner because it's a great venue and it's so nice to be there with all the guys. -- Guy Forget
I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears. -- Mark Potok
It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd. -- Keren Ann
But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it -- Bill Sienkiewicz
The audiences are really different in general. Even in the same country or in the same city, from one venue to another, the audiences can be totally different. -- Rokia Traore
I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue. -- Yancy Butler
I definitely prefer intimate crowds. I mean, those are always the best shows, like, a small venue. Packed to the gills. Hot, sweaty. Those are always the fun shows. -- Yelawolf
Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for a long time, we were totally winging it. -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden
And one of the things that makes me happiest and proudest is that the talk radio venue, the whole market has expanded. There are all kinds of people doing it. -- Rush Limbaugh
And one of the things that makes me happiest and proudest is that the talk radio venue, the whole market has expanded. There are all kinds of people doing it. -- Rush Limbaugh
A fantastic golf course and venue. It's one of those places that you always look forward to going back to...no matter how many times you have been there before. -- Lee Westwood
My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows. -- Kid Rock
Using human rights commitments more effectively, either as part of negotiations in the WTO or as part of the trade policy review process, poses issues of equality in a practical venue. -- Mary Robinson
We know Roger Ebert loved the 'Sun-Times' and his career as a newspaper columnist. But ironically, it was his illness and losing his voice that caused him to explore another venue. -- Bill Kurtis
I noticed that the crowds in the US seem to do a lot more moshing than European fans. But it's also different from venue to venue and really hard to say. -- Johan Hegg
Dubai's world class physical infrastructure has already established it as a major player in terms of trade tourism and as the leading conference and exhibition venue in this part of the world. -- Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
At the beginning of the tour, I arrange the live show exactly like the album, but of course from one audience to another, from one venue to another, it can become longer. -- Rokia Traore
I'm not going to name any names, but let's just say, I want to do jokes on Donald Trump so badly, and I have no venue. So right now, I'm just dry Trumping. -- Stephen Colbert
I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good. -- Ira Glass
We will apply the experience accumulated in the past four years to the operation of every competition and training venue as well as facilities in the Olympic Village in an intensive and comprehensive way. -- Liu Jingmin
Building outrageous expectations about the next big thing - be it a personal video chatting service or venue-based photo sharing app - can create all sorts of complications when things don't go as planned. -- Ryan Holmes
In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities. -- Viswanathan Anand
Ginny's Little Longhorn is my favorite place to play and hang because it's close to old school beer joint music venue as you'll ever find. The Continental Club is also in the top as well. -- Dale Watson
Every audience is different, even within the same venue. You have to just make every audience your audience; you can't pre-judge an audience based on the size of the room or the type of room. -- Patton Oswalt
The great thing about Ticketmaster is that it's seen as the comprehensive site for ticketing, artist information, venue information. We're a marketing platform, not just a technology platform, and we're going to build on it. -- Irving Azoff

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