#pacing

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards. ↗

— Austin O'Malley

#american #englishmen #frenchmen #irishman #pacing

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#audience #concert #instinct #into #me

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture. ↗

— Rita Dove

#already #ever #gesture #good #heard

So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#audience #because #burn #enough #excluding

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#drama #energy #hard #harder #much

There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#conclusion #done #i #just #kind

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#i #kind #pacing #same #someone

But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies. ↗

— Robert Englund

#mostly #movies #pacing #these #you

With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#give #mini #pacing #proper #sense

Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#another #badly #big #big event #book