"I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience."
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"I always take the audience into account."
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"Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified."
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"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
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"I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature."
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"It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed."
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"Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience."
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"There was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself."
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"I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down."
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"I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience."
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"An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for."
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"I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself."
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"I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience."
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"When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things."
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"The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life."
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"A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal."
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"Look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as if every one of them owed you money."
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"When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time."
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"I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience."
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"Any audience, as a rule, goes for a fast number."
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