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Democracy is not a spectator sport.
Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.
Celebrity's a spectator sport. You have to feed it.
I wrote my first song, called Spectator,' when I was 11.
I think words come between the spectator and the picture.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Sometimes, I think 'The Spectator' is calculated to embarrass me.
Politics has become the great spectator sport of the United States.
A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
I can't remember the last time I've been to a football game as a spectator.
I spoke to the 'Wine Spectator' because that's PR; that's how you sell wine.
In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
I'm not a good spectator; I'm a nightmare when I'm injured and I'm not playing.
In high school, I didn't always relate to my friends. I was more of a spectator.
I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.
Music is not a spectator sport, you have to be involved - fully involved - or you get left behind.
Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.
I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.'
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.
I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!
In 'Uthamaputhiran,' 'Velaiyilla Pattathari' and 'Yennai Arindhaal,' I was a mute spectator to everything.
In the highly unlikely event that the 'Telegraph' was to be sold again, then 'The Spectator' doesn't go with it.
Writing at the 'American Spectator' in the 1990s, we threw everything we thought would stick at President Clinton.
You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
The Spectator' has to be managed and people have to report. We all have bosses in this world and that's true of 'The Spectator' too.
As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.
In fact, female slam-dunking as a spectator sport died this week when Candace Parker won the McDonald's All-American slam-dunk contest.
Rasputin's daughter understands the revolution. She would have been an outsider, a spectator in the royal family and to the revolution.
If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.
I chose those films which I would like as a spectator. Then, I also look at the character and decide whether I will enjoy playing it as an actor.
With silent films, you're better off avoiding irony, because the spectator is your accomplice. It's this pact that leads to emotion being created.
I grew up in a house where I was a spectator to the sport of cooking. In that way, I just learned so much about what it really takes to make food.
I wrote an ITV drama in the 1960s, a satire on management theory that starred Leonard Rossiter. I'm also a poet and have had work in the 'Spectator.'
I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
As a spectator eSport, I think 'StarCraft' is really exciting, engaging, and interesting to watch. As a player, it just really has something for everybody.
Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.
Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.
David Blaine, I think, was the first TV magician to really turn the camera around and make it about the spectator's experience. That's really what magic is all about.
But there are times, as an actor, where you are like, 'Although I am really sad that I did not get this, I am really, really excited to watch it and just be a spectator.'
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.
I have known Boris Johnson since 2004. I wrote the first big profile about him in the American press. I've been edited by him when he ran the Spectator. I know his family.
Precisely because I'm a man who is attracted to women, there may be some things that I have to say as a spectator of feminine grace that women themselves may not be able to see.