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Audience Quote by Lewis Hyde

“True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.” quote by Lewis Hyde — Download Open image

“True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.”

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We are only alive to the degree that we can let ourselves be moved.

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What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish it from…

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Erik Erikson has commented: Potentially creative men like (Bernard) Shaw build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during which they…

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“All cultures seem to find a slightly alien local population to carry the Hermes projection. For the Vietnamese it is the Chinese, and for…

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The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then our labor…

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To be a great teacher, you can't simply be looking at how to earn your income. And with a priest or spiritual leader -…

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Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.

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We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds.

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All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and…

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Science may not be as intimate as the medical profession; nonetheless, it certainly is a community in which ideas are often shared as contributions,…

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“There is the family of our birth and then there is a more noble world to which we really belong; the richness of this…

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An anaesthetic is a poet-killer.

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If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made…

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It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments…

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I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very…

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It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.

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If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl.

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The liveness of theater, and the excitement of experiencing it alongside an audience, is something you can't get at home. That makes the theater…

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One of the things that touches me most when I play for an audience is that although we may be unable to communicate in…

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I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community.

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When you lived it for years and years and years and seen different characters just get pummeled and squashed because 'I said so,' it…

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“During the first few minutes of your presentation, your job is to assure the audience members that you are not going to waste their…

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Donald Trump is a different ball of wax. I've been trying to say for I don't know how many months now that the traditional…

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