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I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No.
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Talent is being able to please people.


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There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.
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I work to please my audience.


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I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?


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The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.


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Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.
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Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.


Arthur Conan Doyle
I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I like to think that's the function I serve for others.
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.
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All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.
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Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
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My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.
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I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.
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