Jim Messina Quotes
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial backflip in half a second, accelerate at two Gs, and fly rotor blade to rotor blade in three-dimensional formations - and they do all this autonomously.
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I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.
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When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.
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I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
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I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.
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If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
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It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.
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Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.
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Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.
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I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.
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Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.
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Imagine that anything is possible, and name the most amazing thing that could happen in 2013.
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As you continue to work on a show, if I still feel inspired, and I feel they are making exciting choices, then our enthusiasm remains. This is not a perfect science. It's an evolutionary process.
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Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.
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The manuscript looks chaotic, even by mathematics standards.
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That set it for me that it was possible to capture an audience
