Quotes of: Audiences Keyword

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

[about Tyler splicing frames of pornography into family films] Narrator: So when the snooty cat, and the courageous dog, with the celebrity voices meet for the first time in reel three, that's when you'll catch a flash of Tyler's contribution to the ...

Fight Club

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

A platform is what defines your visibility with your audience.

Authorpreneur in Pajamas

The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago.

Denis Leary

I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.

Lesley Garrett

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

Oliver Goldsmith

I've developed an audience over the years and I don't want to loose them.

George Duke

Audiences are a wee bit more chatty in New York than in London.

Neve McIntosh

The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence.

Nick Nolte

With 3D, all you're doing is trying to shock the audience; there's no value to the storytelling.

Nick Nolte

You can't lie to your audience. You can't lie to your fans.

Nikki Sixx

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

Oscar Wilde

I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.

Phil Collins

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

Peter O'Toole

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

Robert Englund

We are so excited to be touring and showing audiences the versatility of the cello.

Stjepan Hauser

Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.

Shahrukh Khan