T Quotes
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“The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.”
“The audience wants you present, not perfect.”
“The audience was composed of the lower stratum of white working people: hard-faced, lantern-jawed, dull-eyed adult children, seeking like all humanity for something permanent in the eternal flux of life. The young girls in their cheap finery with circus makeup on their faces; the young men, aged before their time by child labor and a violent environment; the middle-aged folk with their shiny, shabby garb and beaten countenances; all ready and eager to be organized for any purpose except improvement of their intellects and standard of living.”
Source: Black No More
“The audience was highly pretentious and somewhat vain at gazing deeply into what was fundamentally shallow; so in this vein with thoughts flowing, and past that vane with minds blowing, it completely missed the point.”
“The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.”
“The audience was transported, not only by the work but also by the fine dynamics of the choir, which were something unusual in those days. Not less powerful was the religious impression made by Bach’s music. “The crowded hall looked like a church,” writes Fanny Mendelssohn. “Every one was filled with the most solemn devotion; one heard only an occasional involuntary ejaculation that sprang from deep emotion.”
“The audience went from hating me to loving me to hating me to loving me. They probably would have f - ed me then rewarded me, f - ed me then rewarded me.”
“The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.”
“The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.”
“The audience will only truly respect you when they have no idea what is going on.”
“The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom will teach you how to obey, and obedience in the theatre will get you nowhere. It’s a soothing falsity.”
Source: True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
“The audience works as such a mob. They either all laugh or all don't laugh, and, you know, changes from audience to audience.”
“The audience's expectations are ever-present.”
“The audience's imagination will do a better, more personalized version of the horror than you can actually paint. So that just, you know, with something like "The Blair Witch Project," which is, you know, whatever, it's 89 minutes of people running through the woods and one minute of, you know, a guy standing in a corner.”
“The audience's reactions are more important: if people believe in the love story, it's because they love how we've acted. That's the most beautiful award. It's very important for me, people appreciating what I do.”
“The audience, that's who I care about.”
“The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.”
“The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.”
“The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved; they don't want to be taught any lessons. [...] I get more letters for Twelve Chairs and Life Stinks than I get from any other movies, because people actually agree with the philosophy, or were moved, or they love the movie.”
“The audiences are really different in general. Even in the same country or in the same city, from one venue to another, the audiences can be totally different.”
“The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.”
“The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.”
“The audiences certainly have declined. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows.”
“The audiences like to think that satire is doing something. But, in fact, it is mostly to leave themselves satisfied. Satisfied rather than angry, which is what they should be.”
“The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.”
“The audition process is always grueling. You always hope to just get offered things, and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesnt.”
“The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.”
“The Auditor-General has been complaining year in and year out that the municipalities have not paid auditing fees. It is not because they are reluctant but they don't have the money to pay the Auditor. So, you can't say that you are throwing money at somebody who doesn't have money. Lots of the things that the municipalities can't do are because resources are not there.”
“The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.”
Source: Table Money: A Novel
“The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame.”
Source: Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)
“The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.”
“The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.”
“The August 2023 Maui wildfires stranded thousands of vacationers.”
“The August 2023 Maui wildfires took down large parts of the electrical grid.”
“The August 2023 Maui wildfires took down the communication systems in the area.”
“The August 2023 Maui wildfires were among the most devastating disasters to hit the Hawaiian islands.”
“The August 2023 wildfire caused extreme devastation in the historic Lahaina town.”
“The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation.”
“The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. .. Even in the Eternal City (Rome), says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve.”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.”
“The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her spectacles lay on her apron'd knees.”
Source: Fly leaves, by C.S.C.
“The aunts’ conception of the right to privacy went far enough to allow you to close the toilet door when you were peeing, but no further.”
Source: The House of Aunts
“The aunts gathered around the fiery cake chanting, Make a wish! Make a wish!”
Source: Space, in Chains
“The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.”
Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre
“The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in space is as bound up with them as might be their colour or smell ... Therefore the painter must be as concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with the subject itself. It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.”
“The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is to live in that smog.”
“The aura of soccer is very different from other sports.”
“The aura of the place had shifted. Maybe I’d previously read or heard something about the cape. I don’t believe in ghosts, per se, but the mind is most definitely a haunted place.”
Source: Rainy Day Ramen and the Cosmic Pachinko
“The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.”
Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess