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| If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it. | Ignacy | Jan) Paderewski (1860-1941, Polish Pianist, Composer, Patriot |
| The simplest way to customize is to phone members of the audience in advance and ask them what they expect from your session and why they expect it. Then use their quotes throughout your presentation. | Alan Pease | |
| A theme is a memory aid, it helps you through the presentation just as it also provides the thread of continuity for your audience. | Dave Carey | |
| The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going. | Philip Crosby | |
| If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping. | Ada Teixeira | |
| The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. | Alben W. Barkley | 1877-1956, American Politician |
| In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. AUDIENCES are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings. | Alfred Hitchcock | 1899-1980, Anglo-American Filmmaker |
| The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots. | Alfred Jarry | 1873-1907, French Playwright, Author |
| A playwright is the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great. | Arthur Miller | 1915-, American Dramatist |
| The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
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| An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark -- that is critical genius. | Billy Wilder | 1906-, American Film Director |
| A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-BergĀre and looks at the audience. | Bishop Mervyn Stockwood | American Bishop |
| The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Movies are a fad. AUDIENCES really want to see live actors on a stage. | Charlie Chaplin | 1889-1977, British Comic Actor, Filmmaker |
| 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 | 1885-1930, British Author |
| Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colourful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. | Dale Carnegie | 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer |
| Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said. | Dale Carnegie | 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer |
| It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech. | Dan Kennedy | American Businessman, Marketing Expert |
| We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life. | David Mamet | 1947-, American Playwright |
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| Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves, whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience. | Diogenes of Sinope | c.410-320 BC, Cynic Philosopher |
| Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. | Eric Hoffer | 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher |
| I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare. | Ethel Barrymore | 1879-1959, American Actress |
| Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience. | Fanny Brice | 1891-1951, American Entertainer |
| A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience. | George F. Will | 1941-, American Political Columnist |
| Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. | George Szell | |
| Some writers take to drink, others take to AUDIENCES. | Gore Vidal | 1925-, American Novelist, Critic |
| Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations. | Greil Marcus | 1945-, American Rock Journalist |
| 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 | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
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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. | Henry Geldzahler | 1935-, Belgium-born American Curator, Art Critic |
| Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass AUDIENCES his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be. | Herbert Marcuse | 1898-1979, German Political Philosopher |
| If you want an audience start a fight. | Irish Proverb | Sayings of Irish Origin |
| At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves. | Jean Baudrillard | French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer |
| Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak? | Jean Genet | 1910-1986, French Playwright, Novelist |
| Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners. | Jimmy Stewart | |
| My routines come out of total unhappiness. My AUDIENCES are my group therapy. | Joan Rivers | 1933-, American Comedian, Talk Show Host, Actress |
| I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine. | John Lydon Rotten | 1957-, British Rock Musician |
| If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you. | Katharine Hepburn | 1907-, American Actress, Writer |
| If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute -- I've got to have them. | Ken Dodd | |
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| The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. | Lenny Bruce | 1925-1966, American Comedian |
| The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. | Lester Bangs | 1948-1982, American Rock Journalist |
| Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is. | Mae West | 1892-1980, American Actress |
| The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself. | Oliver Goldsmith | 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright |
| The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| Every crowd has a silver lining. | P.T. Barnum | 1810-1891, American Showman, Entertainer, Circus Builder |
| There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening. | Pat Metheny | |
| 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?'' | Quentin Crisp | 1908-, British Author |
| Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. | Rebecca West | 1892-1983, British Author |
