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• Potential audiences are real people found in real places.

  Suzanne Lacy

  Real, People, Found

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• I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.

  David Cassidy

  Kids, Years, Seventies

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• I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

  Keith Richards

  Ideas, No Idea

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• In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.

  Cat Stevens

  Firefighter, Style, Experience

  "Feline groovy". Interview with Molloy Woodcraft, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2004.

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• I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Cheer, Hate, Kicking

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2003). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.201, Cambridge University Press

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• Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

  Rick Springfield

  Song, Writing, Cameras

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• There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

  Blaise Pascal

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

  Lawrence Welk

  Laughing, Lines, Forget

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

  Bradley Whitford

  Faith, Believe, Order

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• The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

  Michael Faraday

  Believe, Teaching, Giving

  "A Random Walk in Science". Book by Robert L. Weber, 1973.

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• The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Laughter, Laughing, Way

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• You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Interesting, Film

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• I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

  Lucille Ball

  Love, Real, Ham

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• It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Play, Singing

  FaceBook post by Chris Cornell from Oct 23, 2016

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• If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Thinking, People, Four

  anne morrow lindbergh (1936). “north to the orient”

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• On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

  Anthony Quinn

  Stage, Ifs, Loses

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• The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Actors, Delight, Celebration

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• When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.

  Kenny G

  Play, Feels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.

  Treat Williams

  Commitment, Hands, Three

  "Afternoon Treat". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. April 26, 2002.

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• That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak first to themselves and then to an audience.

  Mike Svob

  Artist, Reality, Doe

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• An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.

  Selima Hill

  Integrity, Fall, Giving

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• A lot of us grew up in public. That often means that you have to fail in public too.

  Robert Longo

  Mean, Failing, Grew Up

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• Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working on. When he spoke he said, 'That is a fantastic brush!

  Robert Genn

  Moving, Men, Hovering

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• The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.

  Al Alvarez

  Art, Real, Resistance

  Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.283, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.

  Nicholas Lea

  Way, New Ways, Series

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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