Imaani (Imaani Saleem) Quotes
For me it’s a way of reaching more audience and at the end of the day; that’s what it’s all about. I just want to sing and be heard, that’s what I love. With the House project for instance, I am going out to South Africa next month. I have a pretty cool following over there and it’s been brilliant.
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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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Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.
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The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.
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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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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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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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I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
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Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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I have to grow with my audience.
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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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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.
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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 have this whole new audience now.
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If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
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A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.
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The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a number of operas make the hearer a musician, but good judges of music and painting may so be formed. Chess differs from these. The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.
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A soul who is not close to nature is far away from what is called spirituality. In order to be spiritual one must communicate, and especially one must communicate with nature; one must feel nature.
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For me it’s a way of reaching more audience and at the end of the day; that’s what it’s all about. I just want to sing and be heard, that’s what I love. With the House project for instance, I am going out to South Africa next month. I have a pretty cool following over there and it’s been brilliant.
