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The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. ↗

— James Thurber

#appreciative #audience #cannot #chuckle #comedy

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be! ↗

— Barry Cornwall

#calms #deepest #fed #gentlest #how

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium. ↗

— Brian Eno

#i see #medium #narrative #picture #rather

Voters will decide how they want to be governed. ↗

— Evangelos Venizelos

#governed #how #voters #want #will

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. ↗

— Brian Eno

#doing #haven #i #interested #people

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work. ↗

— Brian Eno

#best work #completely #do your best #fascinated #i

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there. ↗

— Brian Eno

#creates #discovered #electronic #i #new

If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever. ↗

— Brian Eno

#developing #exactly #feel #forever #get

In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...' ↗

— Brian Eno

#against #anyone #because #century #child

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either. ↗

— Brian Eno

#afterwards #again #composing #either #gardener