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• However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.

  Pat Garrett

  Artist, Media, Two

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• Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They just can't buzz any slower.

  Kin Hubbard

  Thinking, Bees, Busy

  "Reading I've Liked : A Personal Selection Drawn from Two Decades of Reading and Reviewing, Presented with an Informal Prologue and Various Commentaries". Book by Clifton Fadiman, 1941.

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• When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room.

  Wes Borland

  Song, Way, Rooms

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• There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.

  Samantha Barks

  Yelling, Laughing, Cry

  "Samantha Barks, Eponine In ‘Les Miserables,’ On Winning One Of Hollywood’s Most Coveted Roles". Interview With Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.

  Alfred Nobel

  Science, Biographies, Taste

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• My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I used to buzz it. And my mother played piano and sang in the church choir for different functions. So there was always music in the house, jazz, gospel, or whatever. Especially jazz records.

  Johnny Griffin

  Mother, Father, Kids

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• I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special, looking for someone, anyone to sit next to. A predator approaches: gray jock buzz cut, whistle around a neck thicker than his head. Probably a social studies teacher, hired to coach a blood sport.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sports, Teacher, Zebras

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.5, Macmillan

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• She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But that night, in his burning bed, he understood that he had to go see her, even if he were not capable. He got dressed by feel, listening in the dark to his brother's calm breathing, the dry cough of his father in the next room, the asthma of the hens in the courtyard, the buzz of the mosquitoes, the beating of his heart, and the inordinate bustle of a world that he had not noticed until then, and he went out in the sleeping street.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Brother, Father, Heart

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.28, Penguin UK

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• Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from the shady trees; the lark soared high above the waving corn; and the deep buzz of insects filled the air.

  Charles Dickens

  Song, Nature, Air

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.37

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• But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief.

  Miriam Toews

  Weed, Grief, Mushrooms

  Miriam Toews (2014). “A Complicated Kindness”, p.186, Faber & Faber

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• I get a huge buzz from spending time with kids.

  Prince Harry

  Kids, Spending Time, Huge

  "Prince Harry on emotional coming-of-age tour". Interview with Seth Doane, www.cbsnews.com. March 14, 2012.

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• Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

  James Ellroy

  Rocks, People, Youth

  James Ellroy (2012). “Conversations with James Ellroy”, p.60, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.

  Mark Millar

  Real, Writing, Character

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• It’s a buzz every time you perform under pressure.

  Ian Baker-Finch

  Pressure, Under Pressure

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• It is such a social thing, laughing. Two thousand people in a room laughing is such a great buzz and they tend to laugh much more in a group.

  Jimmy Carr

  Two, People, Laughing

  "Jimmy Carr interview: Motormouth reflects on the crazy world of stand-up comedy". www.mirror.co.uk. November 18, 2011.

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• Buzz is not what I am looking for.

  Chris Hughes

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• Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.

  Thierry Henry

  Baseball, Football, Team

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• I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Memories, Bed, Crave

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• You never get tired of the buzz of touring.

  Peter Noone

  Tired, Touring

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• I'm very used to stages and dressing rooms. And dare I say it, much as I like being at home, I love the buzz of a new hotel room.

  Jay Kay

  Home, Rooms, Stage

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• I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.

  Greg Kinnear

  Years, People, Lasts

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• I here present thee with a hive of bees, laden some with wax, and some with honey. Fear not to approach! there are no wasps, there are no hornets here. If some wanton bee chance to buzz about thine ears, stand thy ground and hold thy hands-there's none will sting thee, if thou strike not first. If any do, she hath honey in her bag will cure thee too.

  Francis Quarles

  Hands, Honey, Firsts

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• There's nothing better than going out there and performing and making that connection with audiences. Even after all this time I get the biggest buzz from that.

  Seal

  Connections, Going Out, Performing

  "Seal: Still Crazy After All These Years" by Fiona Sturges, The Independent, October 11, 2003.

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• TV's not the same buzz. If someone tells you three million people watched the show last week, that's good but, when you walk out in front of 1,000, you think, 'Oh my God, this had better be good'.

  Jimmy Carr

  Thinking, People, Three

  "Carr's a comic with universal appeal" by Paddy Hoey, Daily Post, July 15, 2005.

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• My petite little platinum blonde beauty of a wife suddenly turned into a public-relations dynamo. "The business is Buzz!" she proclaimed, and indeed so it became.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Wife, Blonde, Littles

  Buzz Aldrin, Ken Abraham (2009). “Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon”, p.229, Crown Archetype

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