Living Room Quotes - Page 9

• Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's living room for the singer in our band, I sang a Beatles song that Lennon sang. There is something about the timbre of his voice, something that it conveys, that still gets to me. The quality and the poetry of his lyrics. The wry sense of humor. And the boyishness, in the beginning. There are a great many things that touch me about him... Lennon was, to put it in his own words, a 'working-class hero.'

  Don Henley

  Song, Dad, Hero

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• Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room.

  Anne Tyler

  Reading, Writing, Acid

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.

  Josephine de La Baume

  Beautiful, Brother, Parent

  "Josephine de la Baume on Mark & "Dreamcore" Style". Interview with Lauren Houssin, www.elle.com. May 16, 2011.

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• Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - .BANG! - there you are in someone's living room.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Light, Bangs, Television

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• The difference is in Hostel it's in the theatre - it's in public but it's in a private place. You have to actively make a choice to want to go see it. It's not being forced on anyone. Whereas 24 you can be flipping channels and it's right there in your living room. Anyone has access to that. But that just shows how mainstream it is and how people are seeing this stuff on YouTube. People are scared of it. This is a subject matter that everyone's talking about and everyone's thinking about, particularly in American culture.

  Eli Roth

  Thinking, Talking, Differences

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.

  Ben Folds

  Animal, Class, Piano

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• Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption. It is the Gospel in my living room.

  Katie Davis

  Beautiful, Adoption, Rooms

  Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark (2012). “Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a piano in my living room that I mess around on a little bit and when I asked Len if I could find a piece of music, I went through a **** load of classical music to find something that I felt had a certain urgency to it, but also with a hint of melancholia and maybe a sense of longing. I found that which is public domain and I had a piano teacher to go through it with me.

  Colin Farrell

  Teacher, Piano, Hints

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• You just may be a redneck if your lawn furniture used to be your living room furniture.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Home, Redneck, House

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• I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and the little living room in our little apartment there, and I'd skin my deer, and all the guts would go in the tub, and I'd sneak them out so my fellow students on both sides wouldn't see all that, you know. I'd clean fish up there and all.

  Phil Robertson

  Ducks, Skins, Sides

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• I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Garden, Cities, Office

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I'm in the favela I have the impression that I'm a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Cities, Forever, Useless

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• It’s very easy to capture pictures of jubilant people in the street after the nuclear bomb. But there were no pictures of morose people sitting in their kitchens and living rooms.

  Amartya Sen

  People, Kitchen, Nuclear

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• I've said no to 'Celebrity Big Brother,' 'Strictly,' and the American one, 'Dancing With The Stars.' I don't feel it's right for me. I've been asked to do reality TV a zillion times. No way. No way. Nobody's going to get into my living room and see me there.

  Joan Collins

  Brother, Stars, Reality

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• If you don't have any ties to the music industry, you just love 'American Idol,' you can sit there and do exactly what you do in your living room, which is stare at them and judge them.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Idols, Ties, Judging

  "Neil Patrick Harris 'shattered dreams' on 'Idol'" by Whitney Pastorek, www.today.com. August 29, 2009.

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• I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do.

  Jim Carrey

  Night, Animal, Guy

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• We are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living room, no agendas, no buried resentments or permanent scars. Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Brother, Growing Up, Rooms

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• It's been nice, actually, to keep in touch with a lot of the people and families that I've written about. Like with the kids I was just writing about from Guatemala, who survived being kidnapped and fleeing violence, it was nice to just sit down in their living room and play bingo with them, go to dinner with the family. And sometimes not thinking about it in such a mechanistic "I am now coming to report and get what I need" way, but just spending time, helps you see a more natural version of who they are too.

  Sarah Stillman

  Nice, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.

  Marina Abramovic

  Hate, Order, Kitchen

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• Nothing?Micheal!You're 'playing'!.IN PUBLIC? 'That's new?' Claire whisperd to shhane 'He hasn't played anywhere but our living room since-Teeth-in-neck mime 'You know Oliver' 'Oh.' micheal's face was turning pink.'just put it back,OK?It's no big deal! Eve kissed him.

  Rachel Caine

  Teeth, Rooms, Faces

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• I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet.

  Chita Rivera

  Beautiful, Glasses, Rooms

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• When things seem to be slowing down, there's this little trick I like to play. I'd plow this virgin who's on her period, and after I'm done I'd just run out into the living room, or the dance floor, with all that bloody goop on my junk and yell, OH MY GOD, I'VE BEEN SHOT IN THE NADS! Yeah, good times.

  Zach Braff

  Running, Play, Junk

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• I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

  Mary Lou Williams

  Music, Mother, Long

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• We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes and minibikes. The grown-ups looked so silly framed in their living-room and kitchen windows. They complained about their days and signed deep sighs of depression and loss. They talked about how spoiled and lucky children were these days. We will never be that way, we said, we will never say those things.

  Jill McCorkle

  Children, Silly, Kids

  Jill McCorkle (2003). “Creatures of Habit”, p.1, Algonquin Books

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• I think it's very dangerous for a free society to have all the information distilled and packaged by our government and given to us. Do we know to this day who we killed in Iraq? I don't think so. If bringing war into the living room means that we as a people will say we don't want to do it that way anymore we want to figure out other ways to solve these conflicts, then I would say that photography and television have done us a great service.

  Michael Deaver

  Photography, War, Mean

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