#audience

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that. ↗

— Ira Glass

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I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person. ↗

— Crispin Glover

#eccentric #fact #i #me #mix

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate. ↗

— Seth Green

#being #gain #greater #sympathy #than

What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#being #draws #first #get #holding

I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience. ↗

— Richard Griffiths

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But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#also #appreciation #audiences #enabled #even

There's been a vacuum with movies that people can relate to. There's been a paucity of dramas that people can relate to. I think audiences are clamoring to connect - particularly after 9/11 - with things that are genuine and real and I think documentaries are filling that need. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#audiences #been #connect #documentaries #dramas

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#annoying #audience #din #fraud #fright

When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience. ↗

— Nicholas Lea

#constantly #doing #excite #like #looking