Quotes About Community

I think that with podcasts, a lot of things are about fostering and having a direct connection with the community.

Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

I've directed fragmentarily at the Herod Atticus, but never before a popular laiko unitals concert.

I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.

It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter.

I love talking directly to the fans.

I know what difference it makes to a community if a dirt road becomes a bitumen road.

I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

I don't think being a Muslim or being a non-Muslim has been an advantage or disadvantage.

Sport is important for children, especially from disadvantaged places, to bring up their self esteem.

Society might have been better off without them, but we are supposed to look after the disadvantaged, and so we do it. But it doesn't help the society.

I've always wanted to work with young people from disadvantaged areas.

I grew up in small-town America, black, disadvantaged.

Many members of the Hollywood community are very liberal and they value their civil liberties more than they value life. I disagree with that.

In Washington, there is a way to have disagreements and debates, which is so healthy, but a way to be friends at the end of the day, which I believe is the essence of America.

Where I come from, no one settled their disagreements with bets, because no one of us had any money to bet.

Retirement isn't what it used to be. It used to be you retired and you disappeared off the face of the Earth. Now you have social media. I keep in touch with all my fans. It's great.

I was part of a show called 'Manifest Equality' in Los Angeles in 2010, and I realized there was a disconnect between people who are gay or have gay friends and are gay-friendly, and people who think they don't know any gay people.

Living in Hollywood, you can get disconnected from everybody. You can feel like you are the only one.

We should all miss bookstores. They let you discover things.

I've discovered home is not a place anymore. It's the people around you.

Growing up, I always loved working with people. I love playing with people and having that moment of discovering something different. I believe in the magic of what music is.

The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.

Meeting someone who likes what I've made is like discovering a brother or sister.