Quotes About Engagement

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me.

I believe in creating ideas that consumers actually want to engage in, creating movements with our thinking and not bombarding them into submission.

What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.

I don't like to have a strategy going into a fight. If he has a good right hand or a good kick or good submissions then I'll try to avoid that, but I like to be in a fight and I like to go into the fight. Even in jiu-jitsu I didn't think of pulling this guy into guard or take him down because I like to go into the fight and see what happens.

It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.

I'm just an early adopter; I subscribe to more things than normal people and have a high level of inbound and a high level of noise.

People read me but they don't subscribe.

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.

I do not subscribe to the idea of actors Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, Pawan Kalyan, and Upendra launching political outfits just because they are actors, though I am a fan of all these stars.

There's so much to consume that it's very easy to read a headline in the news outlets that you subscribe to that you maybe support and go 'This is how I feel.'

Sometimes I watch myself on 'The Hills' and I'm like, 'Whitney, could you, like, maybe pretend to be more interested, or say something of some substance instead of just giving looks?'

If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.

Once you can get a fan to listen to an album a handful of times and really have a lot of substance for them to grasp, then you're looking at having a fan that really appreciates what you do for life and can appreciate coming to see it live.

A lot of people talk, but they don't say anything. And people listen, and they don't absorb anything of substance.

You can window-dress and promote a movie as much as you like but if the movie hasn't got substance and isn't an exciting movie, people won't watch it.

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

I'm eagerly looking forward to substantial roles from Kollywood filmmakers.

It's important, at least for me, that while we're entertaining, there's also something substantive to talk about.

I really enjoy hosting, not necessarily because it provides more airtime, but because it allows me to be a part of more substantive discussions.

There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.

There's really no substitute for being able to sit across from someone, have eye contact, see and read their body language, hear the inflection in their voice in a real way.

You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.

Every schoolteacher will tell you that there is no substitute for engaged parents in the education of a child.