Audience Quotes
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“Or take this girl, for example. At a meeting just outside Paris, a fifteen-year-old girl came up to me and said that she'd been to see [The Double Life of] V茅ronique. She'd gone once, twice, three times and only wanted to say one thing really - that she realized that there is such a thing as a soul. She hadn't known before, but now she knew that the soul does exist. There's something very beautiful in that. It was worth making V茅ronique for that girl. It was worth working for a year, sacrificing all that money, energy, time, patience, torturing yourself, killing yourself, taking thousands of decisions, so that one young girl in Paris should realize that there is such a thing as a soul. It's worth it.”
― Kieslowski on Kieslowski
― Kieslowski on Kieslowski

“But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper.”
― Confessions of an English Opium Eater
― Confessions of an English Opium Eater

“To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask?”
― Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
― Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

“I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.”
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“The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. Let Big Brother do the singing and dancing for you. Be a reporter. Be a good witness. A grateful member of the
audience.”
― Lullaby
audience.”
― Lullaby

“Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.”
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“Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]”
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“Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.”
― Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
― Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
“A director is a general in charge of an army of traitors like any showman. An audience will love you, laugh with you and wait outside your stage door when you're hot and on a roll, but no audience is ever truly friendly. Not for long. Bore 'em or disappoint 'em - even once - and they'll turn on you and tear you to pieces, regardless of who you are or might once have been.”
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“I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.”
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“One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again be quite so 'easy' as they had been.”
― A Terrible Beauty : The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind - A History
― A Terrible Beauty : The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind - A History

“When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don鈥檛 have an audience; I have a set of standards. But when I think of my work out in the world, written and published, I like to imagine it鈥檚 being read by some stranger somewhere who doesn鈥檛 have anyone around him to talk to about books and writing鈥攎aybe a would-be writer, maybe a little lonely, who depends on a certain kind of writing to make him feel more comfortable in the world.”
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“The trick of any good lie is just finding an audience who wants to believe it.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning

“Lengo la jina la kitabu ni kuishawishi hadhira kusoma dibaji, na lengo la dibaji ni kuishawishi hadhira kusoma salio la kitabu kizima.”
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“If I had done nothing more than bring McCabe's talents to the attention of what has become a world-wide audience--if I had done only this job, I believe I'd have established myself as a force for mass education and enlightenment with immediate and constructive effects on the thinking portion of the population. My association with McCabe has been enough to build a career for anyone.
{Julius on legendary scholar Joseph McCabe}”
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{Julius on legendary scholar Joseph McCabe}”
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“I always have one major question鈥hat do you want your audience to feel? Do you want to scare the shit out of them? Squirm in their seat? Feel beautiful? And how they answer that question gives me cues to work on. I translate their words into music.”
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“The goal is that we need not to have a large audience to make a difference.
If you have a pen, use it to contribute towards the betterment of your society.
If you have a voice, speak your way through making a positive change in your environment.
If you have connections, use them to make a positive difference.
If you only have your family or friends, relay your message of change to them.”
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If you have a pen, use it to contribute towards the betterment of your society.
If you have a voice, speak your way through making a positive change in your environment.
If you have connections, use them to make a positive difference.
If you only have your family or friends, relay your message of change to them.”
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“Give your audience a change to experience the content first before you ask them to like, share and subscribe.”
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“I can't tell you how many times I wrote something thinking it expressed one idea, only to find people saw something else in it.”
― Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths
― Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“Ultimately, the meaning of the work is not determined by the artist but by the audience.”
― Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths
― Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“Finding an audience is synonymous with finding yourself. When the artist discovers their audience, they, in turn, discover new dimensions of their own identity.”
― Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths
― Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“The artist doesn't have to concern themselves with posterity because, ultimately, the audience will decide. Our only option is to do the best we can here and now.”
― Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths
― Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths
“To reach any desirable audience, one must almost always run a gauntlet of virulent complainers.”
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“We live in an era where good design is available everywhere. Design that can attract and lead to a purchase, a sales call, a following, a subscription鈥� If you have good design everywhere, what makes you stand out as an individual? What in your branding turns that simple scroll into a yes, yes, yes! I am in; I resonate.”
― Intentional Branding: 10 steps to Create your Space: For creatives and entrepreneurs.
― Intentional Branding: 10 steps to Create your Space: For creatives and entrepreneurs.

“If you continue to do your job with great seriousness and discipline without complaining about not having a single audience, one day you will have a large audience!”
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“You may say that the serious writer doesn't have to bother about the tired reader, but he does, because they are all tired. One old lady who wants her heart lifted up wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club. I used to think it should be possible to write for some supposed elite, for the people who attend universities and sometimes know how to read, but I have since found that though you may publish your stories in Botteghe Oscure, if they are any good at all, you are eventually going to get a letter from some old lady in California, or some inmate of the Federal Penitentiary or the state insane asylum or the local poorhouse, telling you where you have failed to meet his needs.”
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.”
― Revolution in Guinea: Selected Texts
― Revolution in Guinea: Selected Texts
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