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Adrian Leon LeBlanc, my dad and my namesake, his keen joy in observing people and the world is the reason I became a journalist.
For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.
I have understood by observing blind people that they are very confident. They don't see themselves as suffering from a disability.
Ramadan is an important part of Islam, and when you are observing it, God is happy with you and you have to have a big celebration.
I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.
A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people.
Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important to me.
I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships.
I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.
I am travelling to different places and talking to people about travelling litter-free, observing the wildlife, and respecting the host.
It's been a habit of mine since childhood to always be looking around. When I go shopping, I have more fun observing the town than shopping.
One of my pleasures is observing people's behavior and pointing out the inconsistencies that we all sort of have at the center of our lives.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.
One thing I've learned from my parents and from observing all the artists I've been lucky enough to grow up around is that you've got to be brave.
I love observing people. Each face tells so many stories. It lets me understand emotions, and that, in turn, helps me apply my skills as an actor.
In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly.
I believe it's worth observing terrible things people have done as clearly and rationally as we can to show that our monsters are not caricatures.
You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.
A lot of human learning comes from unsupervised learning where you're just sort of observing the world around you and understanding how things behave.
There's a natural set of constraints with mobile phones that force you to be a better photographer by acknowledging and observing the world around you.
I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.
Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena.
I am observing that to become an actor, people say, they want to join gym. Why join a gym? Why don't you join an institute where they teach you how to act?
Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.
I was really interested in observing people. From a young age, I wouldn't listen to what an adult was saying - I was obsessed with other people's body language.
Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.
I've always really been interested in observing people's postures, the way they speak with their hands, the way they communicate things with their body language.
My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.
What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual.
I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.
As an artist, you're just observing the world around you. So much is overwhelming and it's all so inescapable that it can't all speak to general cultural statements.
I think the best time to learn things is when you're hurt. Just sitting back and observing to see how you can be effective in certain parts of the games is important.
I think that's something that people don't realize enough about when they get into comedy - it's not just about sitting back and observing and saying something funny.
I think everyone in high school at one point feels like they're on the outside observing what's going on. Even if you're very popular, you have an outsider experience.
I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.
Warhol was the ultimate voyeur, constantly observing people through the lens. He watched and listened, but did not participate. Behind the camera, Warhol was in control.
I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.
In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me.
I had to do a lot of preparation for 'Kaaka Muttai.' I had to literally spend every night and morning in the slums, observing the life of people there, and work on my diction.
I think that having a job in journalism, despite all of the changes, is still a fantastic way to be - make a living observing your society and having a chance to use your voice.
I think of myself as an Indian comedian, but I've had British and American schooling. I always had this feeling of not fitting in anywhere, of observing situations from the outside.
The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
I love to see what real human behavior looks like. I've always envisioned my job as just observing and noting that and, for the purposes of my work, just cutting out the boring parts.
Observing gravitational waves would yield an enormous amount of information about the phenomena of strong-field gravity. If we could detect black holes collide, that would be amazing.
I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment.
One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.
I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.
I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
Only by observing the laws of nature can mankind avoid costly blunders in its exploitation. Any harm we inflict on nature will eventually return to haunt us. This is a reality we have to face.
I'm an actor, and I keep observing people and their reactions to figure out what they are thinking. There's only so much you can do on your own, so you have to keep learning. Art imitates life.