“ The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original] Chuck Palahniuk
“ But-when you really think about it-that emotional support only applies to the experience of living in public. We don't have ways to quantify ideas like amazing or successful or lovable without the fee… Chuck Klosterman
“ The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and suffer and miss their trains. Of course actors regard audiences as enemies… Iris Murdoch
“ And I was a Child again, watching the bright World. But the Spell broke when at this Juncture some Gallants jumped from the Pitt onto the Stage and behaved as so many Merry-Andrews among the Actors, w… Peter Ackroyd
“ I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law. Glenn Gould
“ The true aspiration of art should be to reduce the need for it. It is not that we should one day lose our devotion to the things that art addresses: beauty, depth of meaning, good relationships, the a… Alain de Botton
“ Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen re… Roger Ebert
“ Everyone likes to reminisce, but not one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story. Liu Cixin
“ My silence never means I don’t have nothing to talk, but it was important who were audiences and what was the topic. Ali Rezavand Zayeri
“ But it’s still a big fight to get the work you’re really excited about onto shelves. And past that, convincing someone to pay you to do the work that you are most excited about is more than a trick, i… Brandon S. Graham
