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Applause Quotes
"The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me."
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"I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get."
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"The applause of a single human being is of great consequence."
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"Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause."
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"Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare."
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"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."
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"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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"The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten."
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"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."
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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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