Quotes Tagged "audience"

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. Let Big Brother do the singing and dancing for you. Be a reporter. Be a good witness. A grateful member of the audience.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper.

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.

If you want to be successful, you must learn to be loyal audience of your own self because in life difficult times will arrive, you will have no one to applaud you, no one but you!

Lengo la jina la kitabu ni kuishawishi hadhira kusoma dibaji, na lengo la dibaji ni kuishawishi hadhira kusoma salio la kitabu kizima.

If I had done nothing more than bring McCabe's talents to the attention of what has become a world-wide audience--if I had done only this job, I believe I'd have established myself as a force for mass education and enlightenment with immediate and constructive effects on the thinking portion of the population. My association with McCabe has been enough to build a career for anyone. {Julius on legendary scholar Joseph McCabe}

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

Whether the work that I do shall succeed or achieve critical acclaim is for the audience to decide.

What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.

The kind of audience that watches 'Matlock' is ideal for a lead-in to the affiliates' newscast in the afternoon. That audience is older.

Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films.

It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.

I wanted to introduce a contemporary Asia to a North American audience.