Quotes About Engagement

Protagonists traditionally are active characters.

In a movie, you're just passive; you're just watching a story that is told to you. But in games, I saw that you could be the main protagonist: you could be in the shoes of the hero and make the decisions.

I like getting under the skin of the protagonists of every book I read, it makes the whole story so much more personal.

I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved.

I've always been engaged in social protection programmes.

I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.

You go to a protest, and you've got all these different groups saying things you don't necessarily agree with. If I went to a protest, my placard would have to be very long, explaining the ins and outs of my position.

A protest is supposed to be public. How can you do it if you don't do it in front of an audience?

The best thing about my protest has been to see how more and more people have been coming and getting involved.

We can't turn back and be the unelectable party of protest.

I was involved in some peaceful protests.

The protocol things, the officialdom, are part of my work. But it doesn't take more than 20 percent of my time. The majority of my time I spend on issues that I care about.

My energy is undiminished. Someone said to me the other day, 'Are you retired?' and I said, 'Well, I'm just trying to prove that I'm not.' There's so many things to do.

Employing a low-key, Midwestern charisma, Mike Pence proved he knows how to win over an audience.

Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in America.' All of that is statistically shown and proven but it was because it was good story telling about people who were outsiders.

It's very difficult to know exactly what a major audience is going to respond to. 'We know they respond to certain personalities. That has been proven by the success of certain people in television who have gone from show to show and carried an audience with them. Apart from that, it's very hard to say what formula works.

I hope to remain connected with the game that's given me so much in some capacity, whatever that proves to be.

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

What is important to me is that when I write something, people listen to me. I provide my wisdom to people, whether they agree or not.

I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

Two wives despaired of him,' he said. 'When he got engaged to Sylvia, she made it a condition that he should take the cure at Zurich. And it worked. He came back in three months a different man. And he hasn't touched a drop since, even though Sylvia walked out on him.' 'Why did she do that?' Well, poor Charlie got rather a bore when he stopped drinking. But that's not really the point of the story.

does not refer to political rivalries