In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punchline in… — Sylvester McCoy Copy Share Image
We reinvent ourselves to solve a client's problem. It's more than just tweaking. It's rethinking what your audience wants and needs. Isn't… — Merrie Spaeth Copy Share Image
At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a roll, but I don't.… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I don't like being naïve about the market, and I always try to make things as great as I can. Then I… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time. Some artists never see their work in front of an audience, so… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
“Do you take pride in your hurt?” Samuel asked. “Does it make you seem large and tragic?” “I don't know.” “Well, think… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I knew that we had an obligation and that was to keep an energy in it and try to keep the audience… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
It was the 60th anniversary of 'Face the Nation.' During his interview, President Obama said, 'Our country doesn't fear the future. We… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I felt there was a certain amount of violence in the graphic and that it could still be cheated on screen so… — Sylvain White Copy Share Image
You have a certain objectivity, as a member of the audience, and you can come away maybe being provoked into a certain… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
If I just know in my gut that a film is going to work, I'll fight to the death over it, and… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Do you take pride in your hurt?' Samuel asked. 'Does it make you seem large and tragic? . . . Maybe you're… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
An aspiring comedian must be determined to get to his or her true feelings on a subject and convey that to the… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it's very serious, and even in the serious songs, there's… — Ed Robertson Copy Share Image
I realized that if you're trying to reach an audience, being as subjective as possible and really trying to write from something… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I saw the title as a way of conditioning the audience, so that when the film actually began, viewers would already have… — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
You can't have an actor where the audience says, aw, that poor, sweet guy. You got to get somebody who's, like, nondescript… — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people… — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
The audience I'm targeting doesn't care about the language spoken in the films they watch. They're interested in more important things like… — Chika Anadu Copy Share Image
Marathi film producers conveniently blame the audience. If there are 70-odd flops in a year, there are a few that are hit… — Mahesh Manjrekar Copy Share Image
These actors like Danny McBride and Jonah Hill are so good at improvising, and when they do it, it's this fun moment… — Jillian Bell Copy Share Image
In general, I think audiences are a lot smarter than people think. So, it's not "know your audience", it's "respect your audience,… — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
You can work and scratch out a living in the theatre, but, if you want to make money, you've got to hit… — Maxwell Caulfield Copy Share Image
Drama began as the act of a whole community. Ideally, there would be no speculators. In practice, every member of the audience… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Any debut novel is usually a case of spitting into the wind - or, just maybe, casting your bread upon the waters.… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
With a rowdy audience, the trick is not to go louder and try to beat them into submission. It's to go quieter.… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
I've always been more interested in the audience than I have in the plays. I like that idea of all those people… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
We get prompt feedback on social network. The overseas audience is quick to convey what they feel about a film and we… — Anil Ravipudi Copy Share Image
In an outdoor environment, you need to be more energetic. The attention of the crowd begins to wander - not like an… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
Love in capital letters is important. It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeling of being loved. All… — Mireille Mathieu Copy Share Image
From what I hear is happening, young Indian boxers have started to do well on the world stage and started to gain… — Evander Holyfield Copy Share Image
James Lovelock is one of the great thinkers of our time. His ideas and inventions have opened up new insights into our… — Chris Rapley Copy Share Image
Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering,… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
I saw the Dead in '73 at Nassau Coliseum, and that same year, I saw them at the crazy, big Watkins Glen… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image