#lines

It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you. ↗

— Jim Dale

#bites #casting #feeling #few #fishing

One of the things I think you need to be a good emcee is silliness. And I'm basically a silly guy. ↗

— Doug Davidson

#emcee #good #guy #i #i think

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#community #found #known #loneliness #long

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg! ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#beauty #dreams #ducks #empowerment #fairy-tales

I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#book #communication #hard #i #information

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#dignity #even #holiness #imagine #more

For you, it's a silent movie. For us, it's a talking movie because we had lines on set. There's a lot of noise on set and music. We spoke in English, in French, in gibberish, but it was very alive. The challenge was tap dancing. ↗

— Jean Dujardin

#because #challenge #dancing #english #french

As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#almost #code #comments #included #lines

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#books #did #falling #falling in love #i

Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#delivery #else #everybody #everybody else #hard