It’s funny to be in rooms where you were originally referred to as ‘The Shakespeare Guy’ and to suddenly be in the position where you’re ‘The Blockbuster Guy.’ That’s a pretty unusual turnabout, I must say.
When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you can’t be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.
I actually avoid talking about my diet and exercise regime because I have interviewed so many people affected by eating disorders and I know that some people in chat rooms can really fixate on other people’s diets. I just can’t contribute to that.
I’ve been very fortunate to be on some great teams and in great locker rooms.
When I do a T.V. show, I hear all these artists in their dressing rooms doing scales – I’ve never done it because I’ve never had voice training. What I do to prepare is get in my car and sing along to the radio for about 20 minutes.
I am very conscious of the fact I am in people’s living rooms every day, and they feel like they know me.
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.
Thinking of Internet chat rooms or AIM as a kind – there’s such an intimacy and honesty to tapping on your phone, despite how quick people are to damn digital means of communication as emotionless or too abstract.
My desk is more of a place where I set my stuff, and then I move around. If I’m at the office, I’m usually wandering around to different meeting rooms all day or taking people out or making tea. I’m rarely at my desk; it’s just a place to hang my hat.
I once stayed at a Ritz in D.C., paid for by a client, and when I asked to change rooms because mine smelled of smoke, the hotel immediately found me a better room, then paid for my dinner and drinks and even threw in a free massage to compensate me for the very minor inconvenience.
Be fun! I don’t like homes or rooms that don’t have a sense of humor or have some sense of whimsy or a personality. Your home should reflect who you are, and what you love. I would never have something in my home because it’s the thing to have. I have to love it and it needs some connection to me.
Whether it is through stock-market trading or the sale of hotel rooms, the Internet has a way of bringing deflationary forces to all businesses that were hitherto inefficient and involved many middlemen.
In my growing-up years in Germany, I attended church in many different locations and circumstances – in humble back rooms, in impressive villas, and in very functional modern chapels.
Real writers – serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it – all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.
If a bright-coated fundraiser was hassling a confused pensioner in the street, people would see, some hero would intervene. But it’s happening in living rooms on landlines, and it will continue.
I love playing big rooms. There’s nothing like it. It’s a power trip.
You know that a lot of people go to emergency rooms when they don’t really need to.
King Charles, who was also the Holy Roman Emperor, lived and worked in hard bare rooms with no carpets, crowding to the fire in winter, using the window’s sunshine in summer.
All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.
Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can’t provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.
I had a blast on tour with Little Big Town. We got to play some beautiful rooms around the country – some really amazing old theaters. And it was just cool to see a band that’s been together for so long.
These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago… I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
My mother cleaned hotel rooms and worked in a video store. My father delivered newspapers and washed dishes in restaurants.
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter. And the rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic, and the best idea wins.
There are writers’ rooms that will write episodes all together, who will break into little groups and write certain scenes. Everyone’s process can be a little bit malleable. Everyone tries to get into a groove or find what works for their room.
In classic noir fiction and film, it is always hot. Fans whirr in sweltering hotel rooms, sweat forms on a stranger’s brow, the muggy air stifles – one can hardly breathe. Come nightfall, there is no relief, only the darkness that allows illicit lovers to meet, the trusted to betray, and murderers to act.
We can no longer remain within our exam rooms and ignore what happens in our communities. As physicians and dentists, we must have a presence in both places. Our sacred responsibility is both to help the patient in front of us and also to safeguard the health of the nation.
I’ll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi’s rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.
When I was Surgeon General, I spent a lot of time talking to people in living rooms and town halls all across the country, and one of the things I started to notice was that behind many of the stories of addiction, violence, depression and anxiety were threads of loneliness.
I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
I don’t ever read chat rooms, because if you’ve got sixteen nice things, number seventeen is always the person that just wants to be contrary.
Musicians get tense at big gigs. Some you can’t talk to before the concert; some you can’t talk to afterwards; some need the same size dressing rooms as others; others need bigger; some have comments to make on others’ musicianship or how a particular song ought to be played.
Steve was so wonderful to bring wildlife into our living rooms and let us see that animals we used to be afraid of are so important.
There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small ‘p’ isn’t just about darkened committee rooms, endless meetings – it is about giving people the right to make decisions about our lives.
A lot of ‘2112’ was written in the back seat of a car and in cold dressing rooms while on tour in northern Ontario.
I play in a lot of empty rooms.
Working in TV, we’re in people’s living rooms, and everyone has a different relationship to it than with movies. You’re there every week; they feel like they know you. They call you by name, and it trips you up.
The worst hotels are any with a bad bed. I stayed in a hotel where they left cards telling me my enjoyment was of paramount importance. I should have written, ‘Nice rooms, crap beds.’
I think we invite people into our living rooms every week through the television because we have emotional connections to them, or they make us laugh or reflect some part of ourselves that we want to live in.
The command-and-control systems, the war rooms, the methods of information gathering, and the technology of the pilotless aircraft, or drones, that now serve the Americans and their allies were all, in large part, developed in Israel.
Too often, patients without a primary doctor go to expensive hospital emergency rooms for nonurgent care.
I don’t watch television! At least not when I’m traveling. For some reason, I have always found it depressing to watch television in hotel rooms. I try to use that time, as well as time on planes, to write.
Believe me, you don’t want to be at a company where there is more candor in the hallways than in the rooms where fundamental ideas or policy are being hashed out.
Sponsorship is sometimes about people behind the scenes who are sitting in rooms determining your assignments and your next career step, and you don’t even know who they are.
I think when I started in wrestling, I hadn’t realized how difficult locker rooms were going to be. I thought they were going to be more inviting than they were.
I started using the Internet when I was 12 years old. I would go into chat rooms and flirt. It was the beginning of the Internet for young people.
I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way to adulthood, and listening to all kinds of music that came to us either at the flea market or in our living rooms or on the ‘Ed Sullivan’ show – all these places we were influenced by.
I always found the road exciting. I liked stinking hotels and freezing dressing rooms.
I hate it when people say that art shouldnt be a commodity. A lot of the rooms in museums, and all the Frieze week events, are there because of high-end art collectors.
