Quotes About Involvement

I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now.

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

I want to keep people engaged and I want them to feel connected to what I'm doing.

I went to school in Connecticut, at Connecticut College, and then really started to get bitten by the political bug.

I love connecting with the audience, and there's more ways than one to do that.

What I do, it's part of my job, but you want to bring your kids up the right way and give them everything - to be there for them and have that connection.

My connections to Broward are long, and they are deep, and I'm proud of them.

Volunteering is a way to quickly become part of your new community, make connections, and start to feel at home. That doesn't just benefit the individual. It benefits the company, too.

I have no connections with any political event.

I started out mainstream and then literally made a conscious decision, like, 'I don't have that core black audience on my side.' And then I literally started looking for projects to get involved in.

One of the things that I learned about myself is that I can get involved in an idea and forget, in a really terrible way, what are the actual consequences of what I'm working on?

I'm involved very actively with three conservation charities, because I'm passionate about animals.

No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.

The whole basis of conserving is not about nature - it is about people. If we don't look after the people surrounding the place, and if they don't have the value of preserving it in their pockets, then they are not going to preserve it.

At this crucial time in our lives, when everything is so desperate, when every day is a matter of survival, I don't think you can help but be involved.

It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement.

Getting the player emotionally involved is the holy grail. We try to make players forget they're playing a game. We want them to live the experience and suspend disbelief.

Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.

People get excited about things like 'Swan Lake' because they generate a personal involvement. If you set up the story properly, audiences respond to the ambiguity. People ask, 'What exactly is happening in Act Four?' and I never say. I can't put it into words, but they've got a feeling about it, and that's good enough.

I had the opportunity to train with Natalie Portman for 'Black Swan,' and the program we created was intense and involved a lot of travel.

I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.