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"How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter."
"All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met."
"I am uncomfortable with heights, I'm scared of the dark and I am scared of big crowds."
"Stand up - above the crowd. Even if you've gotta shout out loud!"
"I am scared of spiders! And I still get a little afraid every time I have to do something new or have to get out in front of a big crowd. The first time I sang "Swag It Out" live, I was really scared."
"A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same eagerness were I marching to the Guillotine."
"He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul."
"Everything bigger than life attracts a crowd."
"I do whatever [comedies] I'm attracted to. It's like the woman who stands out in the crowd, who for some reason you notice, that's the one you're supposed to dance with at that time in your life. That's just what it is with scripts... they find you when you're emotionally in the right place to do them."
"I was definitely never a crowd pleaser."
"I feel called to help individuals, to love each human being. I never think in terms of crowds in general but in terms of persons. Were I to think about crowds, I would never begin anything."
"I get sometimes; I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd."
"Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!"
"I don't ever want to be where I can't just walk into a mall and do what I want without a crowd coming up a round me."
"I'm very impressed. All the crowds I've seen are very enthusiastic. It's not the first time every seat hasn't been sold at the Winter Olympics."
"If you're talking about crowd enthusiasm, it varies. I have a decent following in Australia so I like there. I'm interested in playing everywhere."
"I can move any crowd."
"Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd."
"I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian."
"I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill."
