Audience Quotes - Page 38

• Just in higher education alone, more people go to college now, by enormous amounts, than went to college in the '50's and '60's. So that represents a whole new literate public that's a consumer of literature, of news, of print, of, you know, opinion. And that's a bigger audience and much more diverse audience than it used to be.

  Louis Menand

  College, People, News

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I'm not one of the people who has a kind of scholarly hat and writes in a certain way for an academic audience and then puts on a public intellectual hat and writes a different way for a different kind of readership. I generally write the way I write, no matter what and it seems to have worked for me.

  Louis Menand

  Writing, People, Intellectual

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Designers from start to finish now in digital media have to think in a much more sort of thoughtful serious and humble way about how design audiences will receive their products.

  Khoi Vinh

  Humble, Thinking, Thoughtful

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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• I think that one of the things about music is it's supposed to be spontaneous, it's supposed to be real human beings bouncing off of each other whether its from the stage or to the audience, or jamming with friends.

  Tod Machover

  Real, Thinking, Spontaneous

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I never get too many problems. You can never please everyone anyway, obviously. And some people take the easy route and just play the greatest hits, and their audience is happy to hear that as well, and that's fine, but it wouldn't please me. But it doesn't trouble me.

  Paul Weller

  Please Me, Play, People

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• I suppose that it doesn't matter whether a song is written or sung by a man or a woman. If the sentiment is there, it captures the audience.

  Emmy Rossum

  Song, Men, Matter

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits are funny and which bits need to be fixed.

  John Cleese

  Needs, Comedy, Fixed

  "Early On, Comedian John Cleese Says, He Had Good Timing But Little Else". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. October 16, 2015.

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• I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

  Steve Martin

  Musical, Serious, Comedy

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• The audience works as such a mob. They either all laugh or all don't laugh, and, you know, changes from audience to audience.

  Sarah Silverman

  Laughing, Knows

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Patrick thought we should try to put an audience in front of one of the workshops, basically in front of the class and see how the performers rose to having an audience there, because he said, "You know, it's a really interesting test, because sometimes it gets even funnier."

  Brian Henson

  Class, Interesting, Rose

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I thought, well, if we're inviting an audience, let's do it right. So I put in a proper studio audience at our studios in Los Angeles and it was just a little showcase and it was just for fun.

  Brian Henson

  Fun, Littles, Los Angeles

  Source: bigthink.com

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• "Sesame Street" was really the first kid's show that my dad did. He did a couple of TV specials that were targeted for kids before "Sesame Street," but really, it was, it's kind of going back to our roots, when we start to get adult. This show gets very adult sometimes, and that's because of the audience.

  Brian Henson

  Couple, Dad, Kids

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There's an awful lot of scenes where we don't know what the scene's going to be about, we ask the audience, pick a place that the scene is happening, pick the relationship, tell us who they are, things like that.

  Brian Henson

  Awful, Scene, Knows

  Source: bigthink.com

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• And if the audience is in a kind of naughty, raunchy mood, then they're going to make naughty, raunchy suggestions and then we take them and we do the scene anyway, and that's part of the fun.

  Brian Henson

  Fun, Naughty, Suggestions

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We try to keep it a classy show, but it certainly is blue at times. And it all depends on the audience, sometimes we've have audiences that don't really want us to go too far in that direction.

  Brian Henson

  Blue, Trying, Want

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If there are older black people in the audience that I can see I will not say the n-word. I know they grew up with a different meaning.

  Neal Brennan

  People, Black, Different

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You can just keep getting it worse until you have to pull back and let the audience breathe. But yeah, I really love digging.

  Ricky Gervais

  Digging, Breathe, Yeah

  "'The Office' Star Ricky Gervais Back with 'Extras'". "Day to Day" with Noah Adams, www.npr.org. September 22, 2005.

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• I know that my audience is largely women, so what I try to do a lot of times is address their issues.

  Tyler Perry

  Issues, Trying, Addresses

  "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

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• I think one of my favorite pieces I've ever done on the show which was about Hezbollah Israel conflict in 2006 and it was very pointed. It was a beautifully crafted piece of satire and it's a weird thing to say but it had a joke in there about 9/11 and I remember the audience sort of laughing but also kind of not knowing how to respond to that joke and it was just so - and I remember the tension after we did this joke on the air and there was this palpable gasp in the audience, but they were also laughing. And I thought oh, wow, that is something that is not being said in the Zeitgeist.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Thinking, Knowing, Air

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• A good or great performance is like peeling an onion; in every scene you reveal another layer, something the audience hasn't seen until then. They stay involved because they are constantly learning about and discovering the character they are watching. They can't take you for granted and it keeps them hooked.

  Larry Moss

  Character, Layers, Onions

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• Odds are you’re going to like this lively spin on the true story of six MIT mathletes who broke the Vegas Bank. It’s a kick to watch Kevin Spacey and a gifted young cast use smarts to deal audiences a winning hand.

  Peter Travers

  Smart, Winning, Vegas

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• No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.

  James S.A. Corey

  Men, Politician, Holy

  James S. A. Corey (2013). “Abaddon's Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• I mean my goal is to get Michael Richards to do stand up at the Laugh Factory to an all black audience.

  Daniel Tosh

  Mean, Goal, Laughing

  "Byt Interview: Daniel Tosh". brightestyoungthings.com. November 4, 2010.

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• Globalisation means indeed everything is global but there are still very specific centres of power, especially when it comes to media and news.Misinformation about some attacks is going to affect how emotionally involved the audience is going to get. In the end, an emotional ranking is artificially created when it comes to casualties.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Mean, Emotional, Media

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people.

  Jhene Aiko

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: earstyle.net

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