Eve Arden Quotes
In the theater, I could envision myself as wonderful because of the audience response to my lines.
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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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I've found that musical theater is my passion.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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I don't think anyone's made a videogame yet that is me as the target audience.
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Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.
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Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
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In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.
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Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.
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'Vicky Donor' proved that the audience was waiting for well-scripted funny films.
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I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.
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I think in the industry we're in and the type of audience we have, we're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway? I don't want to grow up.
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I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further.
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Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.
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The problem a lot of writers have is that they really, really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be dictated by reader response. But if you're going to let other people make you feel good, you're going to end up feeling bad when they say the opposite. You've got to be a cultural stoic. Then you won't be devastated by people who respond negatively. Of course, the downside is that it sort of stops you from being able to enjoy people liking your work.
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There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
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In the theater, I could envision myself as wonderful because of the audience response to my lines.
