Participant Quotes

I`ve been in recovery for nine years. I describe the experience as like being an unwilling participant with alcoholism. The whole experience is very frightening and I know it`s a big problem here like it is back home. It`s a scary situation to be in. I`m just trying to do my bit and let people know that they`re not alone if they`re going through it. If I can help them out, do the work I love to do and spend the rest of my time with friends and family, enjoying my time with the people I love, then that`s what it`s all about. - England, Sept. 2005

an interested and informed participant in the process of seeing that under the system of justice in this country, that his rights are respected and he gets a fair trial.

Mr. Berry is the weakest of the three cases as far as the death penalty, ... He does not have a racist background that the other two have. He doesn`t have the same criminal history that these other two have. But I think he may have been more of an active participant than the other two.

These tapes clearly show this defendant was an active participant, he was al-Moayad`s confidant.

Well, I have not been a participant nor a witness of Mayor Bloomberg in press conferences. I really can`t intelligently comment on that.

What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I`m not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I`m not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I`ve probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.

in the studio that went unnoticed for the full hour... Like Matt Cooper, Russert had testified to the grand jury on the Plame affair, yet at no point during the interview did the salient fact sally forth to the viewer. The pretense was uninvolved journalist interviewing involved participant: the reality was one pea in the pod interviewing a fellow pea.

In every charge, in every count, she was an active participant in the sexual assault of these children. Even after her husband was arrested (on domestic violence charges), she never came forward and said anything about the sexual assaults by her husband.

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)