"I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing."
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"We two are to ourselves a crowd."
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"It's always been good here at Edenlove to keep coming here and entertain the crowd."
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"It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys."
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"And that boys," yelled Mr. Weasley over the tumult of the crowd below,"is why you should never go for looks alone!"
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"To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money. Money, money everywhere and still not enough! And then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money. and if you have money, or you don't have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money?"
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"Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now."
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"A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many."
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"You can't compare a Super Bowl crowd, which tends to be more polite and a little more neutral to that. The Super Bowl only has 7,000 to 8,000 fans for each team."
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"Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you."
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"In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic."
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"I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd."
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"The UK crowds always have a lot of energy, and I've done some milestone shows there that I'm very proud of."
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"Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it."
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"The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care."
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"Business today consists in persuading crowds."
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"What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh."
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"The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast."
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"The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd."
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"A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort."
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