“If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.” IfsWishAudiencePoetIndustryAmbitionSakeArguingLecturesCrowdedCitations Book:Hippocrates Source: Hippocrates
“[Malipiero's advice to Casanova.] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.” IfsLooksWishAudienceLaughingAdviceCryTearsSeriousJudgingShedCasanova Author:Giacomo Casanova
“First of all, we have exactly the opposite type of audiences, for obvious reasons. So the competition is not going to be between the movies. I wish Dakota the best, not only because of this movie. I know the expectations of these movies are enormous but we know-every member of the family, brother, sister, real father-that she's a good actress.”” KnowsFirstsRealReasonFatherWishAudienceBrotherTypeMembersExpectationsOppositesCompetitionObviousActressesEnormousDakotaBrother SisterReal Father Author:Antonio Banderas
“If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.” IfsLooksWishAudienceComedyPiecesRomanticFulfillmentCommerceRomantic Love Author:Tom Hanks
“I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of the themes she writes about are stuff I wish was there for me when I was in high school, and I'm so happy she really cares about her female fans. She's not catering to a male audience and is writing music for other girls.” ThinkingWritingCareSchoolGirlWishStuffAudienceFansHigh SchoolFemaleMalesCleverThemeOther GirlWriting MusicCatering Author:Kathleen Hanna
“The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which is both natural and supernatural--understandable, and credible, to his reader. In any age this would be a problem, but in our own, it is a well- nigh insurmountable one. Today's audience is one in which religious feeling has become, if not atrophied, at least vaporous and sentimental.” IfsMenWritingWellsFeelingsProblemWould BeAgeTodayWishNaturalReligiousAudienceReaderNovelistsEncountersSentimentalSentimentalityCredibleInsurmountable Author:Flannery O'Connor