Ovation Quotes - Page 2

• It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Brave, Firsts

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• I get a standing ovation just standing

  George Burns

  Inspiration, Standing

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• All those hours spent alone on the rink is where a skater's strength comes from. That's where a standing ovation starts and if you don't want to be there, it is going to show. Nothing you dreamed about is going to happen if you forget why you started in the first place. You have to skate with you heart. Before anyone can believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.

  Kurt Browning

  Believe, Heart, Want

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• The bow is so old, its horsehair is glue Sent to the factory, just like me and like you So how come they stayed your execution? The audience roars its standing ovation "Dust.

  Gayle Forman

  Dust, Bows, Execution

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.132, Penguin

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• If you're dreaming of being a great soloist, walking on stage, receiving ovations night after night, having money thrown at you, girls chasing after you and your beautiful picture - that's wonderful. But what exactly does that have to do with the practice of music?

  Wu Han

  Beautiful, Girl, Dream

  "David Finckel and Wu Han". Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

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• It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Opera, Matter, Sometimes

  Luciano Pavarotti (1995). “Pavarotti, My World”, Crown Pub

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• Throwing out the first pitch at the Cubs game and having 40,000 people give me a standing ovation was probably one of the highlights of my life. You could see what a great sports town Chicago is.

  Patrick Kane

  Sports, Games, People

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• I don't think I would be a good politician. I kid about it when I get a standing ovation. Sometimes I'll say, "I may run for Governor," but it's strictly a joke.

  Liberace

  Running, Kids, Thinking

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• At the 2012 Olympic Trials, I wanted to make a second Olympic team. I fell face first, and in a blink of an eye, my dreams of competing in a second Olympics were over. Even so, I got up, finished my routine, and saw twenty thousand people cheering. It was my first standing ovation.

  Nastia Liukin

  Dream, Cheer, Team

  Interview With Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Powerful, Stronger, Admiration

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• To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits while watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste.

  John Waters

  Taste, Entertainment, Remember

  "Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste". Book by John Waters, September 1981.

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• Remember the last show you saw that got a standing ovation? Now try to think of one that had the audience on its feet at intermission. They stepped, strutted, stomped, romped, ran rung, hung, flung, flew, threw and played their way through 16 numbers (17 if you count the percussion encore in the lobby that stopped the departing crowd in its collective tracks). It was Blast! and it was fantastic. That said, the show is a cacophony of color and creativity a musical montage offering nearly two hours of stimuli.

  Jan Perry

  Creativity, Thinking, Feet

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• Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Baseball, Fans, Cards

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• We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love. Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire. Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.

  Tim Minchin

  Passion, Love Is, Giving

  Tim Minchin's Commencement Address at The University of Western in Perth, Western Australia, www.timminchin.com. September 25, 2013.

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• Weedly-weedly-wee, make a face, hold your guitar like it's your weenie, point it heavenward, and look like you're really doing something. Then, you get a big ovation while the smoke bombs go off, and the motorized lights in your truss twirl around.

  Frank Zappa

  Light, Guitar, Looks

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.

  Dick Dale

  Son, Months, Week

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• I hit some great shots in my lifetime; now I hit a decent shot and I get a standing ovation.

  Martina Navratilova

  Lifetime, Shots, Decent

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• Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.

  Thomas Friedman

  Israel, Years, Congress

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• I just did 101 shows in 86 different cities in America and Europe and Canada, and I'm not lying or exaggerating when I say, at the vast majority of shows, they loved it. There were encores, there were standing ovations.

  David Cross

  Lying, America, Europe

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• I've chronicled the experience of the mother of a transgender child who got attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee, and that of a transgender woman who was asked to deliver a sermon at her Montana church and got a standing ovation from her congregation. The idea that Christianity is a blanket term that encompasses both of those attitudes seems ludicrous to me.

  Andrew Solomon

  Mother, Children, Attitude

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• I worked for 20 directors as a production designer, most male. I was on the set to witness firsthand a range of sometimes atrocious emotions - well-documented firings, yellings, fights between directors and actors, hookers, abusive things, budget overages, lack of preparation. A man gets a standing ovation for crying because he's so sensitive, but a woman is shamed.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Fighting, Men, Yelling

  "The Women of Hollywood Speak Out" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. November 20, 2015.

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• At that time there was, but they didn't have the guitar I wanted. There are only about 2000 people there and the next town was Dodge City 40 or 50 miles away and I didn't have a car. So it was easier to order it through the mail - which you shouldn't do. But it turned out okay. It was one of those Ovations - there's not much danger in ordering one of those.

  Freedy Johnston

  Guitar, Order, Cities

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• When I was a kid I used to scoot under the table, and whenever company would come around you know or my sisters or parents would tell me, go under the table and I'd do it because it was entertainment for the family or aunts or whatever. And one time at the Paramount when I first did it, you know, Brooklyn Paramount, I did it in the act during an instrumental and it got a big ovation and so I coined it as one of the things I should do in the act. And since I've been doing it.

  Chuck Berry

  Kids, Aunt, Parent

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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• The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all--all designed to appear heroic, to excite and gratify and audience. Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality--there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand?Here is the truth--actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Choices, Childhood

  "The Pale King". Book by David Foster Wallace, 2011.

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• Well, I think if more people had more applause, it would make them feel better. I often give my wife a round of applause. If the meal is very good I give her a standing ovation.

  Tom Baker

  Feel Better, Thinking, People

  "Interview: Doctor Who star Tom Baker". Interview with Paul Whitelaw, www.scotsman.com. August 20, 2009.

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