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There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone. -- Fairfax Cone
When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence. -- Michael Hastings
I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song. -- Miranda Lambert
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good. -- Aaron Sorkin
Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off. -- Dick Wolf
On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience. -- David Simon
We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of. -- Ze Frank
For the BBC and others, a free website is an obvious and relatively cheap addendum to their main purpose of streaming news and entertainment on screen to a mass audience. -- Lionel Barber
None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work. -- George Lucas
Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful. -- Francis Ford Coppola
Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible. -- bell hooks
In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't want to be too personal. If you are, then it probably won't relate to a mass audience. A lot of times you have to make it sound like it's about everybody else, but you really went through it. -- Josh Turner
When politicians began to see that every last thing that they did in public could be broadcast to a mass audience, the fact that the stakes were so much higher now that every moment became fraught caused them to become more cautious, and the consultants very gradually but inevitably became literal reactionaries. -- Joe Klein
The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a certain way, if you don't have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it's unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen. -- Chris Pine
People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and live music together with a mass audience. I could have sung 'Easy' in a country way but I just sang it how I sing. I think it's a really nice blend. -- Natasha Bedingfield
I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries. -- Michael Moore
I think the joy of any soap opera is it is always there. You are allowed into this world for a little while and it's safe in that you are watching other people go through some troubles rather than yourself. It's there every night, and there is something special about that sort of terrestrial television experience for a mass audience. -- Amanda Donohoe
The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution. -- David Cronenberg
Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience. -- Howard Rheingold
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The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience. -- James T. Farrell
If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media. -- Paul Virilio
Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll. -- Gail Zappa
Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit. -- Oliver Gaspirtz
I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass. -- Don Ellis
I want to tell beautiful stories. I know I want to tell stories that appeal to a large audience. I want to make movies that appeal to mass culture. -- Steve Antin
Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained. -- Robert Warshow
Obviously the Internet has become something of a leveler; it was once a luxury to be able to reach a mass audience, and now anybody can do it, to some extent. -- Alonso Duralde
Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there is no mass audience in America for anything better ... -- Nicholas von Hoffman
Tailoring the facts to fit one's theory constitutes neither good science nor good journalism. Rather, it is intellectually dishonest and, when published for consumption by a mass audience, adds up to propaganda. -- Ward Churchill
Today, the mass audience (the successor to the "public") can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given packages of passive entertainment. Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions. -- Marshall McLuhan

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