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"To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still."
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"Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare."
"I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit."
"Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause."
"I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get."
"To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still."
"For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful."
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"What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others."
"To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite."
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