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Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on canned laughter grafted to gag lines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years Picture Quote #1

I hate speaking in front of a large audience. I don't know where it came from... But its just this gut-wrenching fear of slipping up and doing something horrible Picture Quote #1

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience Picture Quote #1

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps Picture Quote #1

It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose Picture Quote #1

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In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in me an enthralled audience of one, and I applaud them across the centuries Picture Quote #1

We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives Picture Quote #1

Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before Picture Quote #1

Reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose - electronic or printed or audio - is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in the human conversation Picture Quote #1

Books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose - electronic (even though that wasn't for her) or printed, or audio - is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in human conversation Picture Quote #1

The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility Picture Quote #1

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Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience Picture Quote #1

I suppose you are a fool to do it, but if you happen to be more interested in the political question, than the size of your audience, then it doesn't matter Picture Quote #1

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act Picture Quote #1

The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents Picture Quote #1

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them;once they are interested, they understand anything in the world Picture Quote #1

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs Picture Quote #1

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Those single - track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters Picture Quote #1

I don't remember where we first played ‘Black Sabbath', but I can sure as hell remember the audience's reaction: all the girls ran out of the venue, screaming Picture Quote #1

What is competent writing? Competent writing is writing that efficiently describes ideas and concepts to an audience, using a grammar that the audience can understand Picture Quote #1

Oh, God, I though, this is like two people in a play, in a moment the curtain will come down, we shall bow to the audience, and go off to our dressing rooms Picture Quote #1

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak? Picture Quote #1

Whoso seeks an audit here propitious, pays his tribute, game or fish, wild fowl or venison, and his errand speeds Picture Quote #1

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If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on Picture Quote #1

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach Picture Quote #1

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors Picture Quote #1

There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them Picture Quote #1

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture Picture Quote #1

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience Picture Quote #1

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Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of "quaint", and cultivated people become interested in it; and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive (Audi Quotes) Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on canned laughter grafted to gag lines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years (Audi Quotes) I hate speaking in front of a large audience. I don't know where it came from... But its just this gut-wrenching fear of slipping up and doing something horrible (Audi Quotes) You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience (Audi Quotes) When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps (Audi Quotes) It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose (Audi Quotes) In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in me an enthralled audience of one, and I applaud them across the centuries (Audi Quotes) We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives (Audi Quotes) Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before (Audi Quotes) Reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose - electronic or printed or audio - is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in the human conversation (Audi Quotes) Books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose - electronic (even though that wasn't for her) or printed, or audio - is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in human conversation (Audi Quotes) The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility (Audi Quotes) Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience (Audi Quotes) I suppose you are a fool to do it, but if you happen to be more interested in the political question, than the size of your audience, then it doesn't matter (Audi Quotes) I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act (Audi Quotes) The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents (Audi Quotes) I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them;once they are interested, they understand anything in the world (Audi Quotes) If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs (Audi Quotes) Those single - track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters (Audi Quotes) I don't remember where we first played ‘Black Sabbath', but I can sure as hell remember the audience's reaction: all the girls ran out of the venue, screaming (Audi Quotes) What is competent writing? Competent writing is writing that efficiently describes ideas and concepts to an audience, using a grammar that the audience can understand (Audi Quotes) Oh, God, I though, this is like two people in a play, in a moment the curtain will come down, we shall bow to the audience, and go off to our dressing rooms (Audi Quotes) Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak? (Audi Quotes) Whoso seeks an audit here propitious, pays his tribute, game or fish, wild fowl or venison, and his errand speeds (Audi Quotes) If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on (Audi Quotes) I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach (Audi Quotes) Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors (Audi Quotes) There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them (Audi Quotes) At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture (Audi Quotes) Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience (Audi Quotes)

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