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The Internet is an audience of one, a million times over. -- Peter Guber
Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval. -- Pamela Anderson
I've been writing about Vermont independence for nearly ten years... and, more often than not, it was for an audience of one. -- Thomas Naylor
The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one. -- E. B. White
The Mesh is about creating and managing what's perishable. It provides businesses with the ability to reach an audience of one, at a precise time. -- Lisa Gansky
In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in me an enthralled audience of one, and I applaud them across the centuries. -- Robertson Davies
I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased. -- Anne Graham Lotz
I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself. -- August Wilson
Any film that exists that is thorough, you can't give it to an audience of one and have that be effective communication. Communication involves an audience of many that have a conversation, put it through the ringer, filter it and then a sense of it coalesces. -- Shane Carruth
I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing. -- Artur Schnabel
I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify. -- Alan King
I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another. -- Dick Cavett
D.C. is one my largest audiences. They buy tons of records of mine in Washington, D.C. -- Marvin Sapp
One of the fun things about playing live is watching the audience sing the songs back to us. -- Tom Dumont
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not. -- Edward Albee
I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience. -- Juice Newton
One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience. -- Kate Bush
I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to. -- Bryan White
People test movies within an inch of their life so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one. -- Peter Morgan
For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them. -- Michael Douglas
There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing. -- Michael Winterbottom
I learned to accept the audience's happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn. -- Bette Midler
When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs. -- Holly Near
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist. -- Kenneth Tynan
One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail. -- David Byrne
At one point, people thought that Eddie Murphy would only reach one sector of the audience, but now everyone sees everything Eddie Murphy does. -- Morris Chestnut
One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey. -- Patrick Carney
One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility. -- William Petersen
When I give talks like the one I'm going to give at the Changing Advertising Summit, one of the points I often make to the audience is that I'm not one of those speakers who stands in front of the audience and pontificates - everything I talk about I'm actually doing myself. I'm living it. -- Cindy Gallop
I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove. -- Os Guinness
Sometimes there's one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it's so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to them. -- Lorraine Bracco
There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience. -- John Stuart Mill
One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience. -- Richard Foreman
The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another. -- Donald Miller
The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. -- Alben W. Barkley
It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience. -- Lawana Blackwell
Confusing a targeted audience is one of the necessary ingredients for effective mind control. -- Joost Meerloo
In working out our callings, we are to perform for one audience, the audience of One. -- Os Guinness
I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict. -- David Copperfield
I am attracting a new audience now, one that is more open and more spiritually inclined. -- Kenny Loggins
Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour? -- John Walford
Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. -- Henri Matisse
Whatever one may say about the perils of workshops, they help writers internalize an awareness of audience. -- Debra Dean
No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician. -- James S.A. Corey
I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience. -- Glenn Frey
Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching? -- Gene Wilder
A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience. -- Bruce Campbell
One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it -- Eli Wallach
One of the things that I love about painting is that I never consider myself to have an audience. -- Scott Avett
I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One. -- Ann Voskamp
People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one. -- Peter Morgan
Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that. -- Andres Segovia
Look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as if every one of them owed you money. -- Dale Carnegie
I don't really think about the audience much. I think of myself. Let me dig myself out of that one. -- Henry Rollins
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist. -- Kenneth Tynan
Films like Harry Potter and Narnia, I'm sure they'll do another one. The biggest audience of course is the youngsters. -- Ridley Scott
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist." -- Kenneth Tynan
I look at is as one single entity. I dehumanize the audience. This way, I don't get nervous, you know? -- Kenny Hickey
One of the things that's really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience. -- Ethan Hawke
Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else. -- Conrad Hall
I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening? -- Eric Clapton
To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile. -- Aeschylus
I'm really not that funny in real life! But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh. -- Carol Burnett
I'm really not that funny in real life. But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh. -- Carol Burnett
The man who tries to be funny is lost. To lose one's naturalness is always to lose the sympathy of your audience. -- Harold Lloyd
The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them. -- Bernie Mac
There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie. -- Randal Marlin
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one. -- Lucille Ball
Occasionally I'll just pull out a rifle and shoot one of my audience members. So far there have been no complaints filed. -- Thom Yorke
Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another. -- George Carlin
In features, one of the goals is to have the audience walk out, fully satisfied. In today's world, it's maybe wanting a sequel. -- Michael Brandt
With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time. -- Simon McBurney
You would never do stand-up without an audience. I mean, no one would even consider it. It's like they're the instrument you're playing. -- Louis C. K.
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
I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one. -- Igor Stravinsky
There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them. -- Dale Carnegie
If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything. -- Tim Crouch
Anyone can perform good deeds for an audience; the best among us do their greatest work when no one is present to bear witness. -- Ken Poirot
One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience. -- William Safire
Everybody has his own theater, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwrite, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain. -- Julius Charles Hare
Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction. -- Andy Serkis
Show business can be an addiction. ... An audience would laugh at me one night, and I would chase that high for another three months. -- Joan Rivers
I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence. -- Asghar Farhadi
I've always traveled with the films because I want the audience to be my teacher so that I can learn for the next one. -- Sally Potter
There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience! -- John Philip Sousa
The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off. -- Alexei Sayle
Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause. -- Julia Bacha
It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is. -- Heather Matarazzo
I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form. -- Jonathan Lethem
There are more social skills required to talk one-on-one [than to an audience]. You don't have to be socially fluid to talk to two thousand people. -- Jerry Seinfeld
Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience. -- Elia Kazan
The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there. -- Eddie Vedder
I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them. -- Lyle Lovett
No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace. -- Agnetha Faltskog
Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning. -- Robert Hughes
Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults. -- John Lasseter
I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting. -- Jackie Chan
I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.' -- Jim Carrey
One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say. -- Gertrude Stein
If you miss one class, you know it; if you miss two classes, your teacher knows it, and if you miss three classes, the audience knows it -- Mathilde Kschessinska
Foreign news is one of the most expensive kinds of news and, unlike in colonial days, one of the categories with the lowest levels of audience interest. -- John Maxwell Hamilton
As long as I can make that audience one thing, one unit, then I'm okay with it. But, sometimes, the bigger the audience, the weirder it gets. -- Brian Regan
The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience to whom one owes even more. -- Judith Martin
Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience. -- Steven Bochco
Certainly, I, as an audience, am stricken with terror if I see only two people onstage. And one person, I think, is even harder for people to take. -- Pauline Collins
If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it. -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit. -- David Mamet
And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse. -- Jo Brand
I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours. -- Helen McCrory
I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience. -- Jane Elliot
You play the one song that people want to hear the most every night, and for every audience that's a special thing. And usually that translates back to you. -- Ted Leo
One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that. -- Eric Fischl
I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience. -- Jane Elliot
One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role. -- Hayden Christensen
I have to wear a new T-shirt every night. I throw them into the audience. One day I'm going to go around the world and reclaim all my T-shirts -- Damon Albarn
You shouldn't need 60 full minutes to create a portrait that an audience doesn't forget. You should be able to make an impression that's lasting and resonant with one scene. -- Chris Bauer
The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a ever-expanding base of experience. -- Eric Maisel

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