"You reach your audience at the moment when you really have something to say - that is, when you're not just delivering a performance."

-- Thomas Quasthoff

#Moments Quotes #Audience Quotes

“I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.”
“Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.”
“When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.”
“We need more fruitcakes in this world and less bakers! We need people that care! I'm mad as hell! And I don't want to take it anymore!”
“If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.”
“The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.”
“A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.”
“My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.”

Source : Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. June 22, 2012.

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