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I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk scene, and some of that stuff just doesn't hold up - it's too much plot, audiences just didn't want to hear about it.
Author:
David Zucker
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I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.
Author:
James Young
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I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.
Author:
Zhang Yimou
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To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences.
Author:
Roy Wood
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I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.
Author:
Dick Wolf
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You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.
Author:
Robert Wise
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What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.
Author:
Rainn Wilson
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.
Author:
Forest Whitaker
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No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences.
Author:
Timothy West
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We have had to play some mighty tough audiences.
Author:
Doc Watson
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The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.
Author:
Ethel Waters
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Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.
Author:
Andrzej Wajda
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Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make.
Author:
Andrzej Wajda
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With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV.
Author:
Andrzej Wajda
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On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.
Author:
Andrzej Wajda
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If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
Author:
Larry Wachowski
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.
Author:
Sid Vicious
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I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.
Author:
Johnny Vegas
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With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.
Author:
Johnny Vegas
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The States still has the best audiences by far.
Author:
Robin Trower
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All audiences should be slightly off balance.
Author:
Richard Thompson
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The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.
Author:
Richard Thompson
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Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.
Author:
Emma Thompson
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I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
Author:
Dylan Thomas
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I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
Author:
Twyla Tharp
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I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.
Author:
Robert Teeter
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During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.
Author:
Jerry Stiller
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The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
Author:
Bruce Springsteen
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Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.
Author:
Kevin Spacey
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I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.
Author:
John Sousa
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There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.
Author:
Mira Sorvino
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I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.
Author:
Tabitha Soren
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I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.
Author:
Archie Shepp
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Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.
Author:
Yahoo Serious
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I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing.
Author:
Artur Schnabel
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There are a significant number of people who appreciate what we do, and most of them gravitate to Analog because this is where they can find it. The other magazines tend to share their audiences, which may result in each of them having a smaller market share.
Author:
Stanley Schmidt
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So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.
Author:
Eriq Salle
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I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet.
Author:
Bob Saget
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I'll keep doing it until I die or the audiences die.
Author:
Mark Russell
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I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.
Author:
Paul Robeson
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The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.
Author:
Michael Ritchie
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We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.
Author:
Harold Ramis
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At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.
Author:
Sean Penn
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American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.
Author:
Simon Pegg
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Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.
Author:
Andy Partridge
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Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.
Author:
Maureen O'Hara
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There are always new things to experience, internalize then write about. This process is ongoing with me. It never stops. The opportunity to reach new audiences with all of the music that we have made is thrilling.
Author:
Graham Nash
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I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male.
Author:
Graeme Murphy
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I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.
Author:
Brittany Murphy
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
Author:
Van Morrison
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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
Author:
Van Morrison
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My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.
Author:
Jeanne Moreau
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Although his crusade in 1957 occurred at a time in our nation's history when race divided all, Reverend Graham refused to preach in segregated audiences.
Author:
Jerry Moran
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Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond.
Author:
Liza Minnelli
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I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.
Author:
Mark Millar
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We showed the industry that female artists could attract the same audiences as the big male stars.
Author:
Sarah McLachlan
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We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences.
Author:
Jacqueline McKenzie
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When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.
Author:
Ian McKellen
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Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.
Author:
Ian McKellen
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It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.
Author:
Todd McFarlane
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The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.
Author:
Rue McClanahan
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The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the most relationship in radio; in fact it pays the bills.
Author:
Robert McChesney
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I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.
Author:
Paul Mazursky
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One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.
Author:
Branford Marsalis
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I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.
Author:
Leonard Maltin
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Audiences deserve better.
Author:
Leonard Maltin
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My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
Author:
Lorna Luft
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He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.
Author:
Alan Lomax
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.
Author:
Sinclair Lewis
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As the audiences got larger, the participation got larger. And I found myself in Dallas, and 20,000 people were singing 'Madonna Whore' back at me. I thought... this is really a great thing. They wanted to hear it really badly, and here they are.
Author:
Cyndi Lauper
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I've built a solid career there, but America's ten times the size. Now that we're onto the third record, I feel like the stars have aligned and American audiences are embracing my music even more.
Author:
Chantal Kreviazuk
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Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.
Author:
Ted Kotcheff
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I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.
Author:
Alexander Kluge
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Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.
Author:
Allen Klein
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Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.
Author:
Dorothy Kilgallen
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
Author:
Janis Joplin
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If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.
Author:
Dwayne Johnson
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I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.
Author:
Roland Joffe
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I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time.
Author:
Roland Joffe
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I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.
Author:
Roland Joffe
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Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.
Author:
Joan Jett
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People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming.
Author:
Gwen Ifill
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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.
Author:
Laurence Housman
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I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.
Author:
Tom Hooper
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The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually.
Author:
Paul Hirsch
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Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.
Author:
Wendy Hiller
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Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.
Author:
Antony Hewish
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Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that.
Author:
Werner Herzog
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There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.
Author:
Werner Herzog
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Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
Author:
Anna Held
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So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences.
Author:
Lee Hazlewood
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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.
Author:
Stephen Greenblatt
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I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough.
Author:
Stephen Greenblatt
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If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.
Author:
Norman Granz
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Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
Author:
Charlotte Gilman
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I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real.
Author:
Steve Forbert
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If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
Author:
Carlisle Floyd
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In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.
Author:
Chow Fat
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I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.
Author:
Andrew Eldritch
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Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences - and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn't connect and, since the film is very personal, obviously I am made to feel very vulnerable by that.
Author:
Atom Egoyan
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We're making a commercial Hindi film catering to all types of audiences.
Author:
Sanjay Dutt
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We don't care about our audiences that much. We just go out and play.
Author:
Santiago Durango
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I also hope that with the assistance and expertise of Dome Records, that I will be able to further pierce the UK and European market. I really like playing there and I want to do more! I've found that the audiences get quite involved and really listen to what's happening.
Author:
George Duke
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But you can't really know your audiences so well.
Author:
Peter Davies
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Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.
Author:
Godfried Danneels
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You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public.
Author:
Celia Cruz
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We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We're really excited.
Author:
Jon Crosby
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But those audiences in Spain, they were just so stoned. I don't like playing to audiences like that because they just don't do anything. I'm up here with my band and we're working really hard and they are just stoned.
Author:
Graham Coxon
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I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.
Author:
Ronny Cox
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The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.
Author:
Deborah Cox
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The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
Author:
Nat Cole
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Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them.
Author:
Claudette Colbert
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When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.
Author:
Glenn Close
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What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.
Author:
Chubby Checker
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Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
Author:
Charlie Chaplin
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For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
Author:
David Cassidy
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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
Author:
Cab Calloway
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All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers.
Author:
John Cale
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Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.
Author:
Jimmy Buffett
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I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.
Author:
Jerry Bruckheimer
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We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.
Author:
Jerry Bruckheimer
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In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.
Author:
Les Brown
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Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.
Author:
Charles Bronson
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Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.
Author:
Tom Brokaw
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The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real.
Author:
Jan Bont
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This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.
Author:
Jacqueline Bisset
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We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.
Author:
Brad Bird
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You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.
Author:
Theodore Bikel
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Audiences are audiences.
Author:
Theodore Bikel
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I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.
Author:
Antonio Banderas
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Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.
Author:
Randy Bachman
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I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.
Author:
John Astin
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I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
Author:
Dario Argento
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Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.
Author:
Dario Argento
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Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology.
Author:
Avi Arad
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I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.
Author:
David Antin
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If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.
Author:
Jean-Jacques Annaud
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We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast.
Author:
Jim Allchin
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The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.
Author:
Edward Albee
