Quotes About Engagement

If you are the record label who owns Lady Gaga, and you have a new artist coming up, you can say, 'Let's have the artist play just before Gaga.' Now you've exposed the huge Gaga audience to the new artist. It's similar to showing a trailer before a movie. The hit creates a hit.

When you're just an actor, you do your role, and then you're in your trailer. It's not as hands on as when you're directing. You live and breathe it.

During such a competition players are there for a long time as well as all the people around them. They need to train, to eat, to go out. There ought to be something in it for everyone. On that particular point, my experience has been a bonus.

I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train and you don't get off until it's over - and it's over very quickly, so don't miss a moment of it. That experience is very rare and specific so don't miss a minute, because there aren't very many minutes of it.

As a note, I never once refer to 'Train' as a game in the rules, and I also never refer to the participants as players.

I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.

Sad to say, multi-tasking is beyond me. I read one book at a time all the way through. If I'm reviewing the book, I have to write the review before I start reading any other book. I especially hate it when the phone rings and interrupts my train of thought.

I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

Conte speaks a lot with the players, also on the pitch and on the training ground, preparing very well for the games.

I've always been one of those players that when I went to the training ground, I'd always have my eye on the fans.

I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone.

Music is the reason I started talking to people. When I started singing in bars and trains, I began to learn the behaviour of people. Music was the bait that helped me get something from them and give myself to them.

For trance music to be good, it has to sneak up on you.

Individuals who are out there to make transactions with pay-per-tweets, it's a turnoff for their fans, rightfully so.

Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services - from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants - are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.

I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.

If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter of 'The Hobbit' aloud to us.

When I joined Uber, the organization I was part of was over 25% women. By the time I was trying to transfer to another Eng. organization, this number had dropped down to less than 6%. Women were transferring out of the organization, and those who couldn't transfer were quitting or preparing to quit.

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

Hip-hop started as this niche moment, and the values of it, the cultures that it carried on its back; language, clothes, the way you wear your clothes, the items that you consume, all came with the music as an art form. And those things helped transform how people buy, shop, speak, engage.

The Democratic Party has to transform itself. We can't just pop up every two or four years and hope people will support us.

I'd have to say the biggest transformation would be my schedule. I'm really, really busy, but it's a lot of fun.

How people watch and the different ways they connect to TV - you're going to see some expansion and radical transformation.