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  • I don't like public venues. I never know what to wear. -- Glenn Close
  • I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues. -- David Guetta
  • Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position. -- Rocco DiSpirito
  • I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely. -- Maria Bartiromo
  • Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues? -- Margaret Atwood
  • Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency. -- Alan Cohen
  • Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue. -- Kate Baldwin
  • After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter. -- Aaron Belz
  • Go for the girl who can eat a proper meal. If she's passionate about food, you'll most likely be fortunate in other venues. -- Liz Vassey
  • I used to get drunk in venues after my shows and sign the walls "Ed was here." So if you see that, it was me. -- Ed Sheeran
  • When I dj at big venues I try to play tracks that I would want to hear if I were e'd up in a field with 50,000 other people. -- Moby
  • 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
  • I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops. -- Doc Severinsen
  • Today's terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or venues of bustling life like public transportation or entertainment, like nightclubs. -- Cliff Stearns
  • I love the intimacy of small venues, I really do, I like that look that people have that they feel like they're special and they can hear and they can see the band as well. -- Shingai Shoniwa
  • 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
  • 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
  • Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there. -- Sonny Rollins
  • In the shower, with the hot water coming down, you've left the real world behind, and very frequently things open up for you. It's the change of venue, the unblocking the attempt to force the ideas that's crippling you when you're trying to write. -- Woody Allen
  • In this country we're unprecedentedly safe, comfortable, and well fed, with more and better venues for stimulation. And yet if you were asked, 'Is this a happy or unhappy country?' you'd check the 'unhappy' box. We're living in an era of emotional poverty, which is something that serious drug addicts feel most keenly. -- David Foster Wallace
  • One of the great myths in America is that sports build character. They can and they should. Indeed, sports may be the perfect venue in which to build character. But sports don't build character unless a coach possesses character and intentionally teaches it. Sports can team with ethics and character and spirituality; virtuous coaching can integrate the body with the heart, the mind, and the soul. -- Joe Ehrmann
  • I was a gangster when I was young. I had a Robin Hood mentality and tended to always want to support the weak against the strong, but sometimes it was cohesive and I really needed to fall in love with the power of education to find the right venue to express my rage. I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. -- Cornel West
  • It's fun playing small venues. -- Tracy Chapman
  • With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in. -- Rik Mayall
  • When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual. -- Nobu Matsuhisa
  • My dream tour would be like, me, Cole, Drake, Sean, Meek. I think that would be dope, something like that; big venues. -- Wale
  • Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory. -- Harmony Korine
  • This project would not only open up venues of cooperation in the oil and gas sector between the member countries but also help bring the people of regional countries together. -- Amanullah Khan
  • Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another. -- Robert D. Kaplan
  • We like playing smaller venues, but we know how many people want to come and see us so we don't ever want to stop anyone who wants to come to a show from coming. -- Chester Bennington
  • I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues. -- Dave Eggers
  • I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk. -- Garrett Hedlund
  • 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
  • There's something about small venues that's amazing for developing material. It's almost like you can not only hear people's response, but you can understand it. In bigger venues you lose that, but you gain this sense of camaraderie in the audience. -- Mike Birbiglia
  • I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that. -- Gary Allan
  • I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that used to be his. We're the same person. I don't know if he realises how much of a legacy he has left to his children. -- Martha Wainwright
  • The big advantage to playing the Venetian in Las Vegas - where it's a beautiful theater - is that unlike other places, even many other nice venues, I can do a set and lighting cues, I can put on a real show. I can dress up, wear a tux. -- Tim Allen
  • In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall? -- Zubin Mehta
  • One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed. -- Henry Rollins
  • After shows my face feels dirty with makeup and sweat, especially in the smaller venues, so it feels good to get back to the bus and smooth it away. Sometimes you need something alcohol-based, especially on tour when you don't always get a chance to keep washing your face all the time. -- Ellie Goulding
  • Since the break-up of the 1990s, Russia has not had winter sports facilities. All the winter sport venues were effectively located in countries that are no longer part of the federation. There is a strong argument for saying Sochi's legacy will be this country will have winter sports facilities it did not have before. -- Sebastian Coe
  • At a time when we aim to accelerate our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and define a bold agenda for the period beyond 2015, the role of charity can and should grow. U.N. bodies such as the U.N. Volunteers Programme and UNICEF offer venues for people across the world to get involved. -- Ban Ki-moon
  • I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with having theater and other non-club venues, as well as the audience being filled with other artists. It's nice to be with other comics, as usually at other road gigs, I'm solo for the most part. -- Maria Bamford
  • My preference is 3,000, maybe 5,000-seat venues. -- Ronnie Dunn
  • There are so many good venues in Chicago. -- Lee DeWyze
  • Leadership is a skill learned through many venues. -- Todd Stocker
  • It's so easy in these cabaret venues to get earnest. -- Ana Gasteyer
  • You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer. -- Sondre Lerche
  • Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction. -- Anna Meredith
  • Some venues are more intimidating than others, but as professional players you enjoy the intimidating places more than the other kind. -- Ben Morgan
  • A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through. -- Alex Kapranos
  • I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan. -- Ridley Scott
  • In this world we live in, racism is alive and well in all venues. We immediately categorize people, and that's just not right. -- Leigh Anne Tuohy
  • We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues. -- Zachary Cole Smith
  • 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
  • ... Clear Channel owns all the major radio stations and venues. Most musicians aren't aware that a few people control so much of what we hear... -- Susan Tedeschi
  • To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living. -- Ian Bogost
  • I've played Madison Square Garden and Jones Beach several times, but I personally don't enjoy those larger venues. I much prefer theater or a performance space. -- Jason Mraz
  • I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment. -- David Edelstein
  • Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays. -- Tom Stoppard
  • People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets them hanging out together. -- David Byrne
  • I've asked to go back into theaters and smaller venues because to me, in smaller venues I can really demonstrate my commitment to quality. Theaters are great containers for music. -- Jason Mraz
  • We used to wrestle every night, 385 times a year. For ten years. 365 days. Never had any holidays off, ever. Holidays were always two-day venues. Two event venues. Afternoon and night. -- Ric Flair
  • The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London. -- Sebastian Coe
  • The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors. -- Roy Ayers
  • My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that. -- Les Claypool
  • Some venues are better run than others. Sometimes it's just maddening to deal with full dinners being served in front of your face. You can have a good or bad show anywhere. -- Todd Barry
  • The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore. -- Bill Ayers
  • The sports arena Julie calls home is unaccountably large, perhaps one of those dual-event 'super venues' built for an era when the greatest quandary facing the world was where to put all the parties. -- Isaac Marion
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