Quotes About Engagement

I couldn't bare the idea of not being in regular communication with the audience I love - young women of color.

My home is in whatever town I'm booked.

Of course, in our country, developing in a region with somewhat conservative traditions, women were desperately needed to be more engaged - socially, economically, politically.

You make learning fun. Like a children's book or after school special. Tell me about your…um, Athenian women.

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

When you can't rely on sticking a pipe in the ground, what you have to rely on is unlocking the energy and talent of all your people - men and women.

Women do date better than men. They'll get prepared. Men just kind of show-up.

…I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not, ' laughed Mrs. Jo…

Today, spend a little time cultivating relationships offline. Never forget that everybody isn't on social media.

Under her high brows, she eyed him straight on and straight across. She had gone to girls' schools, he recalled later. Those girls looked straight at you.

We don't have time to waste. this is why I created Network & Golf. I challenge you to find one woman with nothing to do.

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

I like these games we play, the ones that involve our heads and our hearts ~ Page 212

To drive a woman away, tell her that you are unemployed. To bore her, tell her that you are single.

I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.

I continue to do standup because there's a connection with a live audience - there are skills that you do learn as a standup comedian that help you on a set.

Standup is like shorthand. Every bit must be both brief and profound or the audience will lose interest.

Sometimes I start off shows by explaining to people that it's just a bunch of stories - I always say 'It's like standup, just less funny.'

Let me tell you about 'Mad Dog' Madsen. He was like the Soccer Dad of the Stanford Men's Basketball Team.

No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in their hands as they're holding it.

If you're creating an entertainment site, you want the content to be the star.

You can't assume anything in politics. That's why every Saturday I walk around my district. I talk to the longshoremen in Charlestown. I listen to the people in East Boston and their concern on the airport noise. I walk down to the Star Market in Porter Square, and people tell me about meat prices.

In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.