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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The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.
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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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When my work does speak to audiences, when it creates audiences around it, I feel a little less crazy because what that means is that there are folks out there who are interested in thinking about themselves and the world through a prism. The prism is a labor and there can be a pleasure in labor.
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One goes, or we all die.
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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.
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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.