Quotes of: Audience-members Keyword

When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go.

Juice Newton

You either entertain an audience or you don't.

Twyla Tharp

The purpose of music as an art form, is to engage the audience.

Unarine Ramaru

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

Voltaire

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.

Cary Fukunaga

You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.

David Henry Hwang

The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.

Marlo Thomas

Alan: "I had terrible stage fright." Sin: "I'm not familiar with the concept of 'stage fright.'" A: "It's pretty awful. You end up having to picture the entire audience in their underwear. Phyllis was in that audience, you know." S: "Why, Alan, I had...

The Demon's Surrender

...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, because in many ways this is the best audience in the world to write for. They're open-minded and intellig...

How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy

According to Wallace, the expectation that art amuses is a 'poisonous lesson for a would-be artist to grow up with,' since it places all of the power with the audience, sometimes breeding resentment on the part of the author. 'I can see it in myself ...

The Brief Bedford Reader

I had a dream about you. We were running on the beach in the moonlight, the sand glimmering like bronzed skin. The air was saturated with laughter, some of it was ours, but mostly it was from the audience seated in the stadium parallel to the ocean. ...

I had a dream about you 2

The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all--all designed to appear h...

The Pale King

Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is stupid. The audience only wants to go this deep. Poor us, we're marginalized because of TV, the great...

David Foster Wallace

Did I tell you what happened at the play? We were at the back of the theatre, standing there in the dark, when all of a sudden I feel one of 'em tug at my sleeve, whispers, "Trudy look!" I said, "Yeah, goosebumps. You definitely got goosebumps. You l...

The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.

Ray Bradbury

I was never really a bone fide member of the folk scene.

Roy Harper

I'm a member of the media. I'm America's Anchorman.

Rush Limbaugh

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

Thomas E. Mann

There is no team without the individual members; an individual can never be a team.

Michael Joling

Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.

Sam Sheppard

When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.

Prince Andrew