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We have an incredible audience. I'm as proud of how Fairport relates to its audience as I am of any music we… — Ric Sanders Copy Share Image
'Nicholas Nickleby' was the best example, where 43 people could make an audience of 1,500 look at a fingernail at any given… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else around when… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Not my biggest fear, but my biggest problem onstage is over-emphasizing what I do. I'm pushing too hard. You need to engage… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
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Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Even more dramatic, Alex Todorov at Princeton has shown us that judgments of political candidates' faces in just one second predict 70… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
There's a gratification that comes from performing in front of a live audience, and you can't replicate that with anything else. In… — Trace Adkins Copy Share Image
There's such a freewheeling nature to 'Second City,' and the greatest thing about 'Second City' was having a sophisticated audience night after… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you're going before you even start. That's a… — Betty White Copy Share Image
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If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that… — Joan Cusack Copy Share Image
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When you making a piece of comedy entertainment, the audience is a big component there. You do have to end up getting… — Jason H. Moore Copy Share Image
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Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Even as a child, I just leaned towards the scary. I remember seeing Halloween, for the first time. I snuck into the… — Kevin D. Williamson Copy Share Image
Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come… — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
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I intend to work until the day I die. I retired from feature-length films but not from animation. Self-indulgent animation. It's nice… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
In myths and movies, the mentor can play a few roles: they bring the hero a magical gift, teach them how to… — Nancy Duarte Copy Share Image
I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid… — Bill Plympton Copy Share Image
'Singham' was one-and-a-half stars all over, and it was one of the biggest hits of my career. It gave me so much… — Rohit Shetty Copy Share Image
I want to try to apply my abilities sometimes to make families happy, so I have to make movies at a venue… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
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I would hope with all my heart that people understand this and see it in the film. And there are also other… — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
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