Jp Mcmanus Quotes

#1. The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope in a way that never seems to happen in the privacy of your own four walls. I'm listening to the audience, and they're listening to me.

Evelyn Glennie

#2. Authors and artists are still afraid of breaking away as far as [William Burroughs] did ... And he did it in the 50s!

Yony Leyser

#3. Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Wilferd Peterson

#4. I don't want to pursue someone at all - I want someone to pursue me.

Leighton Meester

#5. I just try to work hard and run the offense as good as possible. I had a lot of guys around me who made a lot of good plays to help me out.

Tim Tebow

#6. Trauma is as subjective as desire, and the meanings we attribute to experiences, as well as the context in which they occur, determine their ultimate effect on our lives.

Jeanne Safer

#7. It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.

Zooey Deschanel

#8. Trying to not think of something is like trying to not fall after you've already jumped.

Cassia Leo

#9. His mind seemed barely tethered to his body, much less the earth.

Dave Eggers

#10. I want my kisses to haunt his dreams. I want him to beg for me. Seriously, the next time he tries to kiss me, I'm going to turn the other way. I want him down on his knees begging, Please, Boots, please!

Jillian Dodd

#11. The nice thing about solo is I don't have to coordinate with anyone else's schedule, since it's hard for me just to have a free 15 minutes here and there.

Bill Orcutt

#12. What worries me is that the debate about gender differences still seems to polarize nature vs. nurture, with some in the social sciences and humanities wanting to assert that biology plays no role at all, apparently unaware of the scientific evidence to the contrary

Simon Baron-Cohen