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It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about.

But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes.

I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.

You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker.

Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

You know, when I hear music, I just hear the whole thing.

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.

No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming.

Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world.

We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news.

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

And I think that every American - this is an all-hands-on-deck moment for America. And I think it is good and important that every American is informed, understands the issues and whether I agree with them or not, comes into the public forum and we hear from them.

People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

I'd like to be that chameleon. That's really ultimately what I want to hear from people eventually: 'I really love when I see him in stuff, but I never know he's gonna be here.' I want to be that actor that surprises you when you see him in a project, and you go, 'Yes! I love that guy. He's in this? Awesome.'

So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor.

You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

I want to play in a place people want to hear me.

The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old.