Laurie Anderson Quotes
The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.
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My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.'
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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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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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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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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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 have an unfortunate personality.
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I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
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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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I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.
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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 don't think anyone's made a videogame yet that is me as the target audience.
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I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
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There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.
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I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.
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As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.
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There's no reason why fiscal responsibility is a Democrat or a Republican point of view. It ought to be all of our points of view.
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We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
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I'd like to do some things over again. I never want to repeat anything that went well, though - I just want to do better at slightly different things.
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I think I beat myself up more than anyone else.
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The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.
