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“There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.”

Way Mean Film Audience Drama Cameras Best Way Sitcom

Author:Jim Parsons

“I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.”

Humans Mean Actors Human Beings Audience Sitting Theater

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.”

“Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.”

Years Mean Art Sometimes Problem Seems Artist Quality Audience Taste Ten Artistic Momentary Fluctuation Glitches

Author:Jerry Saltz

“All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.”

Ifs Want Kind Mean Audience Laughing Comedy Directors Tests Loud Screening

Author:Todd Solondz

“It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn't go from one to the other.”

Mean Country Hard Audience Goes On Hip Hop Hips Hops Sean

Author:Al Franken

“I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.”

World Mean Given Audience Stuck Terrific

Author:Don McLean

“We are in niche consumption mode, but 'niche' doesn't mean 'small' anymore. Niche can mean focused, and particularly with the Web, which is a global audience you can have something niche and still get 10 to 15 million views.”

Mean Stills Views Millions Audience Focused Consumption Niche

Author:Chris Hardwick

“The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes.”

May Mean Play Artist Attitude Audience Majority Experiments Fixed Arranging

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“A lot of us grew up in public. That often means that you have to fail in public too.”

Mean Audience Failing Grew Grew Up

Author:Robert Longo

“Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.”

Author:Pitbull

“And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.”

People Mean Kids Stuff Parent Audience Intention Grandparent Demographics

Author:Jerry Garcia

“For me, clothes mean self-expression. You need to have an audience and connect with people. Fashion is shared. It connects people. And we share an experience beyond the clothes.”

People Needs Mean Self Audience Share Fashion Expression Clothes Self Expression

Author:Anna Dello Russo

“The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.”

Way Mean Art Given Easy Ability Audience Influence Definite Convincing Impressive Graphic Presenting Propagandist

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“You know, what's popular? Okay, vampires are very popular. Let me make my vampire movie. I'm not saying you can't make a vampire movie. But if you're going to do one do something crazy. I mean don't just get a bunch of, like I said, models and make them into vampires so you'll get an audience. You know maybe get some ugly vampires for a change.”

Ifs Knows Mean Said Audience Crazy Models Okay Let Me Ugly Bunch Vampire Very Popular Vampire Movie

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates an atmosphere of success, as in theatres and restaurants, while a half-empty auditorium smells of failure.”

Ifs Mean Rooms Half Audience Standing Empty Meetings Smell Theatre Atmosphere Restaurants Half Empty Auditoriums

Author:David Ogilvy

“Obviously with the Internet and increased access to other means of watching shows, the audience has dispersed and is all over the place and that is a challenge.”

Mean Shows Challenges Audience Internet Access

Author:J. J. Abrams

“It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose.”

Thinking Writing Mean Matter Seems Fall Games Views Attitude Audience Hearing Point Of View Dull Prose Shallow Restless Foul Begets Writing By Writers American Writer

Author:Robertson Davies