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David Antin

"I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore."

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Donna Grant

"We have had to play some mighty tough audiences."

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Donna Grant

"I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive."

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Donna Grant

"But those audiences in Spain, they were just so stoned. I don't like playing to audiences like that because they just don't do anything. I'm up here with my band and we're working really hard and they are just stoned."

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Donna Grant

"I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again."

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Donna Grant

"All audiences should be slightly off balance."

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Donna Grant

"Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well."

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Donna Grant

"So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences."

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Donna Grant

"Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected."

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Donna Grant

"We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater."

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Donna Grant

"Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable."

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David Antin
"My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer."

Family

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David Antin
"I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton."

Thought

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David Antin
"I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember."

Hebrew

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David Antin
"From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us."

God

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David Antin
"My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it."

Creativity

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David Antin
"I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go."

Thinking

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David Antin
"There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation."

Editing

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David Antin
"While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song."

Poetry

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David Antin
"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."

Prose

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David Antin
"The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer."

Sophists

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