Richard Rodgers Quotes
Whenever I get an idea for a song, even before jotting down the notes, I can hear it in the orchestra, I can smell it in the scenery, I can see the kind of actor who will sing it, and I am aware of an audience listening to it.
Quotes to Explore
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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Before 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I played a criminal in 'Badlapur.' Though the character was innocent, he was not correctly interpreted by some sections of the audience.
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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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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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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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I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
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I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.
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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
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I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.
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Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.
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I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.
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Seeing the same coverages, the same personnel, and for us to change the whole scenery, and bring somebody else in that's necessarily competitive, a professional competitiveness, where guys are respecting each other's careers, but yet are getting better. For us [players] to come out here and a get a win, I think it helped us with those practices.
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When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.
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No matter how big the audience is going to be. I'm interested in doing things that are fun.
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You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.
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In today's environment, the audience expects to be more directly connected to news providers than it did historically and I think that's a good thing, ... We all felt strongly that letting people know that we are willing to engage in a healthy dialogue about what we do we think will enhance our reputation and give us a competitive advantage.
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American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.
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Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.
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In the end, what's any good reader really hoping for? That spark. That spell. That journey.
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Whenever I get an idea for a song, even before jotting down the notes, I can hear it in the orchestra, I can smell it in the scenery, I can see the kind of actor who will sing it, and I am aware of an audience listening to it.
