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“I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.”

Writing Mind Book Audience Particular Please Please Me

Author:William Landay

“Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.”

Kids Audience Failing Like You Please Piano Recitals

Author:Rian Johnson

“Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'”

“American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.”

World Film Audience Please Authenticity American Film

Author:Ang Lee

“If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of some other group of people who are alien and remote? They have their own 'gods and idols' and we have nothing in common. ... If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.”

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Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.”

Ifs Knows Mean Government Audience Television Please Program Administration Sponsors

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“The organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't. So I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. Some people won't understand, but I don't give an account to some people.”

People Giving Sometimes Church Audience Please Accounts Boundaries Organized Living My Life I Live My Life Audience Of One

Author:Anne Graham Lotz

“Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.”

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Author:V. S. Pritchett

“I'm at peace with myself. My film just may please audiences. At any rate, it's already a great prize to be part of just 16 films among all of the world cinema out there. I'm tranquil and satisfied.”

World May Film Audience Please Rate Satisfied Cinema Prize Tranquil

Author:Michel Ocelot

“I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.”

Ifs Should Writing Believe Book Audience Please Careful Reviews Reviewers

Author:Louis L'Amour

“Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that person, please other present company, be pleased to stagger rivals, and get something out of it: applause, promotion, a favor, reciprocal praise. Flattery is as social as a banquet.”

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Book:In Praise of Flattery

Source: In Praise of Flattery