Auditoriums Quotes

• There is only one necessary condition for the emergence of a new theatre, that the stage and auditorium should be open to the masses, should be able to contain a people and the actions of a people.

  Romain Rolland

  People, Theatre, Able

  "Le Théâtre du peuple". Book by Romain Rolland, 1903.

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• The secret to success is written on the doors of this auditorium. One side says 'Push,' the other side says 'Pull.

  Judith Crist

  Success, Doors, Secret

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• It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.

  Tony Snow

  People, Quiet, Introvert

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• The theater has to impose itself on the public, and not the public on the theater... The word "Art" should be written everywhere, in the auditorium and in the dressing rooms, before the word "Business" gets written there.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Art, Theatre, Rooms

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• One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance.

  Ben E. King

  Distance, Journey, Next

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

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• I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

  Otis Blackwell

  Birthday, Redneck, College

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• Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Music, Witty

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• Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Frustration, Skulls

  1957 InVogue,1Apr.

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• There's a lot of people who don't want anything from me but to laugh and have a good time. You see them at the show and they like - they dress up to come see your show and stuff. And they pack these auditoriums and it's a lot of fun, man. It's like, this is how I started, and it's still fun for me.

  Dave Chappelle

  Fun, Men, People

  "Dave Chappelle Sits Down with Anderson Cooper". Interview with Anderson Cooper, www.thehollywoodgossip.com. July 10, 2006.

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• I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.

  Billy Connolly

  Offended You, Differences, People

  "Billy Connolly: 'My ambition is to be regarded as a nuisance'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Wall, Hate, Mean

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• Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.

  Eric Clapton

  Funny, Guitar, Play

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• Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates an atmosphere of success, as in theatres and restaurants, while a half-empty auditorium smells of failure.

  David Ogilvy

  Mean, Smell, Atmosphere

  "Ogilvy on Advertising". Book by David Ogilvy, p. 172, 1983.

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• The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Queens, Honor, Vaults

  Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Table Money: A Novel”, p.471, Open Road Media

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• But first, my friends, I need you to do something for me. We have two spies in the back of the auditorium.

  James Dashner

  Two, Spy, Needs

  James Dashner (2013). “The Kill Order”, p.148, Chicken House

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• Or, if I take that same auditorium and I make it much bigger and put more space between seats, it'll be quieter because it's much harder when you're not in physical contact with people to spread a virus from person-to-person, right? There are all sorts of patterns that we see in epidemiology that help us understand why something spreads.

  Seth Godin

  Epidemiology, Space, People

  "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• Jesus didn't die so we could fill auditoriums, he died so that lives could be transformed.

  George Barna

  Jesus, Died, Transformed

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• I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, orpossibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Art, Play, World

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• The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.

  Don DeLillo

  Office, World, Safe

  "Acclaimed writer DeLillo gives rare reading in McCosh 50". The Daily Princetonian Interview,

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• We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.

  Marilyn Johnson

  Book, Bricks And Mortar, Circles

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• Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.

  Justin Vernon

  Play, Sick, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I was at the University of California at Berkeley, I went to some classes that must have had more than four hundred students in them. I almost always sat in the far back of the auditorium so I could read the newspaper. I remember that I stayed late one day to ask the professor a question, and when I got up to him, all I could think to myself was, 'So this is what the professor looks like.

  Stephan Pastis

  Thinking, Class, California

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• Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the most craven of junkies, though after shooting up he would play the concert piano in the auditorium with astounding artistry, as though insulin were the elixir of genius.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Play, Piano, Nurse

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• Power lies in the details, and the tenacious pursuit of such hidden levers can pay off enormously. While you don't want to get a reputation as a prissy worrywart, worrying about the details in private is important. You may think you are the world's greatest speaker, but if the auditorium's sound system is singing static - well, forget it.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Lying, Thinking

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• I did a show in New Jersey in the auditorium of a technical high school ... Technical high school, that's where dreams are narrowed down. We tell our children, "You can do anything you want." Their whole lives. "You can do anything!" But this place, we take kids - they're 15, they're young - and we tell them, "You can do eight things. We got it down to eight for you."

  Louis C. K.

  Dream, Children, School

  "The Collected Wisdom of Louis C.K." by Bradford Evans, www.vulture.com. February 26, 2013.

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