The radio – this old piece of technology that’s still crackingly current – gives you this communal experience in real time.
I quite enjoy cooking. I love cooking for my friends. It’s communal, it reminds me of being with family, and it’s also a form of therapy; it heals you from the inside out.
The thing with me is, I’m both untidy and I hate mess. But I’m not untidy in communal spaces, like living rooms. My bedroom is havoc.
I’d have to say I’ve become more aware of my communal responsibility.
We are stronger as a group than an individual. Think in a cooperative and communal way, set up local food hubs and create growing communities.
I can’t think of a community that couldn’t benefit from communal thinking.
Gujarat, which Modi has made the laboratory of Hindutva, is the leading edge of the onslaught of communal fascism in this country.
If a film promotes communal harmony, which for me is beyond religion, I am happy to work on it because the film’s premise is in line with my beliefs.
When the BSP was in power, there were no communal riots.
Both the BJP and the SP are trying to create communal tension but people have become aware.
When Sonic Youth writes music, we write everything in a very communal way. It doesn’t matter who brought something in initially; it all gets transformed by the band.
Around 2013-14, I started ranting on Twitter about the communal dysfunction that society was getting into. And I would have fights with trolls.
Mum wasn’t at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.
Rap, to me, is communal. It’s something you do with your friends. So becoming a member of a group was the dream.
I grew up at Kabir Choura in Varanasi in the 1970s. It was an era when communal riots used to happen every now and then at different places.
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
I’m not a religious person, and I’m not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.
My whole life has been a very communal experience; growing up in a house full of happy hippies, having dinner parties three days a week, and going to Christiania, I was constantly surrounded by people celebrating community. If you look at the films I’ve done, they all share that theme.
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
I’m the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it’s the best of both possible worlds.
Music and dance have also always been a communal activity, something that everyone participated in. The thought of a musical concert in which a class of professionals performed for a quiet audience was virtually unknown throughout our species’ history.
My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.
Where I would fault President Bush the most was that, in the wake of 9/11, he motivated our military, but he didn’t call the nation into a state of war. And he didn’t explain that this would take though a communal effort against common foe.
One of the great values of the theater is a communal search for truth; I believe that sincerely.
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