"The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear."
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"When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations."
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"Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say"
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"Try doing something different every day-like talking to the person at the next table to you in a restaurant, visiting a hospital, putting your foot in a puddle, listening to what another person has to say, allowing the energy of love to flow freely, instead of putting it in a jug and standing it in a corner."
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"I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself."
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"Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams."
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"You know, radio DJ's must really love to talk to theirselves. Especially when they have the graveyard shift. 'Hey this is Ellen with 89.1. It is currently three in the morning. There are few cars on the road. And it your still listening heres a little music to get you to dance."
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"I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and NWA and I never went out and shot nobody."
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"My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists."
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"Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening."
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"The mall is good for hearing new music because you hear music everywhere. I like to walk around the mall and hear what the kids are listening to, or what's the feel of Middle America, cause that's what the mall is."
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"To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening."
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"The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts."
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"To me 30 isn't old. But it's definitely the beginning of no longer young. Because you notice little subtle things happen to you. You'll be in your car driving around listening to the radio and hear stuff like, That's was an oldie from The Clash."
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"In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths of people who have already been preselected for their willingness to say what we want to hear."
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"In fact, now for whatever reason, if we're recording in the same room, I get a little distracted because I'm watching the actor instead of listening to the actor. The way we do it now, they're on the phone, and we're sitting here with scripts in front of us taking notes seriously and marking takes and doing some adlibs. I can really focus on the words and not the surroundings."
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"I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk."
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"You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible."
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"Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud."
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"I have an erratic drummer for anybody who's just listening to this, he can keep time, but just in spurts."
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