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I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.
Jon Lovitz
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I've always been a guy that's liked a crowd and having people around cheering for me. I'm not a guy that will keep his head down or respond negatively to boos or whatever.
Matt Kuchar
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I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.
Martin Short
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Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.
Julia Child
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Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.


Shirley Booth
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.


Bill Veeck
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I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up.


Sophie Kinsella
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And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.


Todd Barry
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I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'
Les Dawson
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Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be 'TV celebrities.'
Alan Sugar
African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
Mos Def
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I hate show business.


Joni Mitchell
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The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author.


Isobelle Carmody
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Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place.
Zebulon Pike
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I used to first go on to entertain an audience. But now I go, and this is really true - I go on to have fun with a crowd of my chums.
Norman Wisdom
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I always wanted to be a character actor rather than the poster boy that they tried to make me 100 years ago. An actor has a degree of responsibility to change for the audience, to give them something new each time, to surprise and not bore them.
Johnny Depp
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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
Isabel Allende
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Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.
Mal Peet
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To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.
Roland Allen
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I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why are we all supposed to be interested in one individual's suffering?
Andrea Corr
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