Quotes About Engagement

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

I believe that when it comes to the creation of Sankalp Patra, India in its history has never seen such participation of people.

There's a lot of audience participation in 'Rock of Ages' and 'Rocky Horror.'

We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.

Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.

I've always been an activist, so my participation in community outreach and helping is just a natural extension of that.

Audience participation can often inject a dose of adrenalin into your average dial-tone literary reading, especially if a handful of audience-members are mentally unhinged, and let's face it - you can always depend on at least one crackpot at these things.

A film becomes hit with the equal participation of every actors and crew members.

The greatest filmmakers are not the ones who put everything in; they're the ones who can figure things to leave out, and in doing so, invite your participation.

We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with ideas.

People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.

Our democracy relies on participation, and we've never done better by excluding folks.

Our ancestors went through so much in a fight for us to vote. So I believe that we should engage in all civic participation. It's healthy engagement.

Everybody knows that at a Freedia show, you're definitely going to have some crowd participation, and they're anticipating and waiting for that moment.

The things I'm good at are building communities, participatory media, places where people contribute things of their own making.

Rock n' roll is a participatory sport.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well.

The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.

I never stay anywhere - parties, museums, meetings - longer than three hours.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

I'm the star of stage, screen, and television now, but I'm also available for children's parties and bar mitzvahs.