We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable. We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a front to his headquarters. It was fine.
An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.
That’s the last thing I want to do is go on up there and mess up, you know, in front of America.
I don’t like getting up in front of people and being the loud one when everybody’s out quiet and you’re the only one talking. I’m not a fan of that. I’m fine when I get in front of a camera, I don’t care. You’ll never see me on stage. Not at all.
We went to – I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting.
I can say our strategy has always been and will continue to be getting our content in front of as many consumers around the globe as we can… AT&T has been an advocate of the tenets of no blocking, no discrimination, no paid prioritization.
Practicing going over scenes and in front of the camera just to see how that feels, and then ultimately just finding a way to expose yourself to people. That’s what I did.
It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern – such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.
My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I’ll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch ‘Hoarders’. I love it because a) I’m kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
I think half the battle is just being comfortable in front of the camera – and I already am, doing so many videos and interviews, so then it just takes that extra step of trying to get into character.
One thing I can say about Michael Jordan, nothing was going to deny him to achieve what he wanted to achieve. That includes the Bulls’ front office, the league, or whomever. The man just had an undeniable spirit about himself.
I love it behind the camera as much as I do in front.
As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That’s how I went to my first war.
Lots of people want to have written; they don’t want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.
There’s nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.
Daffodils, blossom and tulips jostle to the front of the stage in April. I love these early perennials: they may be more modest but they nearly all have that one special quality that a plant needs to transform your affections from admiration to affection – charm.
It’s a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we’ve had. We’re very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don’t sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, ‘How do I start? Where do I start?’
More and more, modern warfare will be about people sitting in bunkers in front of computer screens, whether remotely piloted aircraft or cyber weapons.
You just want to keep going, keep putting your best foot forward, keep putting one foot in front of the other.
I’m always shy in front of an audience, so I’m always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don’t like the front, the adulation.
Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don’t sit in the dark hiding. It’s easy to hide and shout and waste people’s time.
I’ve been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that’s nothing like me. I’m very shy.
One of my mantras is, ‘Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.’ I keep that with me in my back pocket. Shoot, I keep it in my front pocket! I keep it in my hair.
I have a tweet that said, ‘I want to be a Calvin Klein model,’ and that was in 2011. And then I modeled for Calvin Klein. And then I had a tweet like, ‘I wonder what it’s like to be in front of thousands of fans,’ and I’ve been in front of thousands of fans.
Trade unions have stood at the front lines of struggles for democratic change and social justice throughout history. In many countries, we are the organized voice of oppositions to governments operating at the behest of corporate power and vested interests.
The way I meditate is by being organised. I can get real Zen if I go home and tidy the front room.
I was the oldest model in South Africa – I grew up in South Africa, but I was born in Canada – and then when I moved back to Canada, to Toronto, at 42, I was a grandmother doing front covers. I was the oldest model in Canada.
I used to think that deadlines should be ignored until the product was ready: that they were a nuisance, a hurdle in front of quality, a forced measure to get something out the door for the good of the schedule, not the customer.
When Lincoln ran into trouble during the Civil War, he got new generals. He brought in Grant. I hope that President Obama will bring in some new generals on the financial front.
Each time somebody working for the Maison has a baby, the atelier creates miniature blouses-blanches, exactly like the ones we wear, with the child’s name embroidered across the front. That is our welcome-to-this-world gift.
I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs.
The playoffs are the playoffs. You just play who is put in front of you.
I enjoy the feeling of standing in front of the camera.
You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don’t fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.
Lead from the front.
When I go see a basketball game, I’m always in the front row. I always have a table at a restaurant; I never have trouble getting a taxi.
With ‘5 Boroughs,’ we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.
If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that’s probably the first thing I’m doing, pullin’ up the laptop and watching. Can’t watch it in front of the teammates, or else I’ll get made fun of.
I’m bad in front of the camera. However, if someone gave me a small role in a film with two dialogues and one scene, I’d do it.
I tell you, if you’re in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you’re back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you’ve got to keep moving.
There is nothing that I’m more compelled to do than get up in front of a crowd and make people laugh.
I’ve had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of people.
We need to stand up and become a united front against a common enemy. It’s important for us to not be divided.
It’s very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there’s nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.
There’s always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I’ve attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.
Any player will stand in front of you and say they’re confident in their abilities and I’m no different.
I’m a guy of 92kg. I haven’t got the physique of someone who can work back and then sprint up front again throughout a match!
Even the biggest of criminals don’t go through what I or my family went through. A small incident was portrayed in the wrong way in front of the world. Maybe that’s how the world works.
It’s embarrassing standing in front of the camera and getting your picture taken.
My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it’s you, and I think that’s what the audience is really interested in… you, how you’re going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you.
Ninety percent of people’s nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.
Rap evolves and to still be current you have to evolve with it! Get in front or get left behind.
