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  • To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits while watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste.

    "Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste". Book by John Waters, September 1981.
  • We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love. Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire. Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.

    Tim Minchin's Commencement Address at The University of Western in Perth, Western Australia, www.timminchin.com. September 25, 2013.
  • The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

    Ovation   Towns   Talent  
    "Blame Phil Collins: 'South Park' loses song Oscar to 'Tarzan'" by Porter Anderson, www.cnn.com. March 26, 2000.
  • The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all--all designed to appear heroic, to excite and gratify and audience. Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality--there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand?Here is the truth--actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.

    "The Pale King". Book by David Foster Wallace, 2011.
  • Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

  • My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.

    Son   Ovation   Months  
  • To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.

  • I get a standing ovation just standing

  • One night in Pittsburgh, thirty-thousand fans gave me a standing ovation when I caught a hot dog wrapper on the fly.

    Dog   Night   Fans  
  • Well, I think if more people had more applause, it would make them feel better. I often give my wife a round of applause. If the meal is very good I give her a standing ovation.

    "Interview: Doctor Who star Tom Baker". Interview with Paul Whitelaw, www.scotsman.com. August 20, 2009.
  • A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.

  • Remember the last show you saw that got a standing ovation? Now try to think of one that had the audience on its feet at intermission. They stepped, strutted, stomped, romped, ran rung, hung, flung, flew, threw and played their way through 16 numbers (17 if you count the percussion encore in the lobby that stopped the departing crowd in its collective tracks). It was Blast! and it was fantastic. That said, the show is a cacophony of color and creativity a musical montage offering nearly two hours of stimuli.

  • I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.

    Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”
  • One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab

    Ovation   Next   Minutes  
  • But, she knew, you didn’t have to marry your soulmate, and you didn’t even have to marry an Interesting. You didn’t always need to be the dazzler, the firecracker, the one who cracked everyone up, or made everyone want to sleep with you, or be the one who wrote and starred in the play that got the standing ovation. You could cease to be obsessed with the idea of being interesting.

    Soulmate   Sleep   Play  
  • Throwing out the first pitch at the Cubs game and having 40,000 people give me a standing ovation was probably one of the highlights of my life. You could see what a great sports town Chicago is.

    Sports   Games   People  
  • Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.

    Israel   Years   Ovation  
  • All those hours spent alone on the rink is where a skater's strength comes from. That's where a standing ovation starts and if you don't want to be there, it is going to show. Nothing you dreamed about is going to happen if you forget why you started in the first place. You have to skate with you heart. Before anyone can believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.

    Believe   Heart   Ovation  
  • It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.

    Ovation   Opera   Matter  
    Luciano Pavarotti (1995). “Pavarotti, My World”, Crown Pub
  • I worked for 20 directors as a production designer, most male. I was on the set to witness firsthand a range of sometimes atrocious emotions - well-documented firings, yellings, fights between directors and actors, hookers, abusive things, budget overages, lack of preparation. A man gets a standing ovation for crying because he's so sensitive, but a woman is shamed.

    Fighting   Men   Yelling  
    "The Women of Hollywood Speak Out" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. November 20, 2015.
  • I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog.

    Dog   Ovation   Canada  
  • I didn't realize at the moment exactly what I had done...I only realized the enormity of it when I walked into the press room and got a long standing ovation.It wasn't until I came out of my daze that I began to appreciate my accomplishment.

  • I hit some great shots in my lifetime; now I hit a decent shot and I get a standing ovation.

  • I don't think I would be a good politician. I kid about it when I get a standing ovation. Sometimes I'll say, "I may run for Governor," but it's strictly a joke.

    Running   Kids   Thinking  
  • True art awakens the Extraordinary Ovation

  • When I was a kid I used to scoot under the table, and whenever company would come around you know or my sisters or parents would tell me, go under the table and I'd do it because it was entertainment for the family or aunts or whatever. And one time at the Paramount when I first did it, you know, Brooklyn Paramount, I did it in the act during an instrumental and it got a big ovation and so I coined it as one of the things I should do in the act. And since I've been doing it.

    Kids   Aunt   Parent  
    Source: archives.nbclearn.com
  • Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.

    Song   Expectations   Joy  
  • I walked backstage, standing ovation. Everyone was backstage clapping.

    Wwe   Ovation   Clapping  
  • OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph."

    Rome   Honor   Enemy  
    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)”, p.171, e-artnow
  • I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

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