It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
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We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, 'Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday'
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Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
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In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.
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Age to me means nothing. I can't get old I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
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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.
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When I am asked, What do you think of our audience I answer, I know two kinds of audiences onlyone coughing, and one not coughing.
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I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
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You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't if you are wise talk down to any audience.
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One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.
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Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president' s spouse. I wish him well
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Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe
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God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh.
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Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.
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I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
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I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of a miracle.
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When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.
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I get pressure from my audience and my agents to be a 'good girl,' and I'm in the public eye, so if I mess up, it's going to be all over the place.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You must] reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.
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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
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