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Related If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL Whether we like it or not, we all come from someplace. And at some point in our lives, we have to ma... JEFFREY STEPAKOFF When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having work... ATOM EGOYAN Well the Street has our target date for breaking even at fourth quarter of 2002, and we think it mig... FERNANDO ESPUELAS The girls have done quite well for this point in our season. We were looking at a strong bid for the... STEVE BORDEN Above all, consider this: The greatest gift we can give ourselves, our children, and our world is to... ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS Well, if it's the audience is a bit lagging we kick them in the nuts until they wake up! BRUCE DICKINSON If we're going to be considered horror filmmakers, we have to prove it not only to ourselves but... ADAM WINGARD As a filmmaker, I wish we didn't have to do trailers at all, quite honestly. I wish we didn'... DREW GODDARD To say we are excited is an understatement. I wasn't sure we were going to make our construction dea... DR. CUBIE WARD We are sure all our compositions would be an instant hit with the audience. DIPAK SARMA Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we'... DAVID CHIPPERFIELD We are creating a world in some ways familiar to our audience but also one that will feel very mythi... FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reachin... JERRY GARCIA When all our efforts have come to nothing, we naturally tend to doubt not just ourselves, but also w... BILL MOYERS Our audience expects CNN to rise to an occasion like this and we will not disappoint, CHRIS CRAMER With any luck at all, this will be the turning point in our season and we can continue to play well. BUDDY GOULDSMITH Our first consideration for writing or choosing songs is audience appeal and participation. It's imp... DUANE PROPES We like our food fried, greasy and sweet. My people in the audience know we go to a funeral to eat, ... RONIECE WEAVER Of course, there's one more hurdle to jump. We still have to have an audience. Will they come? We do... CHARLIE WARD We have sold quite a few since the teams' announcements. It's too hard to tell at this point. Some p... MISSY SETTERS I remember quite well that 10,000 audience sang with us three on the spot, and ever since then, I al... LUCIANO PAVAROTTI This show could be a challenge for the Cambodian audience, ... We don't just want to build a bridge,... ERIC BASS Even in Chapter 11, we are continuing to operate under normal circumstances. We will continue to shi... CHUCK HARTLAGE Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is holy a... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our littl... DICK VAN DYKE We skated with our soul, with our heart and you can see the audience was with us. ALEXEI TIKHONOV At this point, we would also like to express our deepest sympathy to the family of Tom Fox. DONNA LAFRAMBOISE We have...to make sure our messages are relevant in a way that is fresh and connects to each of our ... BOB BERTINI We all have our limitations, but when we give in to our critics, we also have theirs. ROBERT BRAULT Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't... DONALD MILLER We come to know ourselves in the context of our experiences. ELIZABETH ALRAUNE We wanted a college-age audience. The material works well for an adult nightclub audience, but it re... REBECCA REYNOLDS Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! ... PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS All of life is an amphitheater where we each serve as an appreciative member of the audience until t... KILROY J. OLDSTER The music is the story. It is a concert, but it also tells the story of the Swing Era. At the end of... BUD FORREST We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want. ICE CUBE It's like we want the audience to travel with us as we tell our stories. I think of it as a musical;... JUANITA CRIDER In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our p... RALPH RICHARDSON All the indicators are neutral right now, so our ability to forecast long-range is weak. But there a... BRIAN MCINERNEY There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start. STEPHEN HOPKINS My brother and I used our whole bodies, our hands, our personalities and everything. We tried to mak... FAYARD NICHOLAS We don't look like anything most of the people in our audience have ever seen. We wear vintage cloth... DAVE PETERSON All of the material for 'The Fine Line' was created via improvisation with my partner, but n... DOUGLAS WOOD We hit pretty well with two outs. Our defense was also pretty good. This was our most consistent gam... JEFF FREEMAN We know every game is big at this point. But we've been playing well in practice this week and our c... LOUIS AMUNDSON This system is a monster, ... In this decade, I believe we are going to double our audience. J ALLARD Don't give it to the audience; leave it to the audience. ROBERT BLAKE 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON We dug ourselves a hole, and we tried to dig ourselves out of it. We kept it close until late, but t... LINDY RUFF The bottom line is if we make our foul shots, it doesn't come down to Steele taking a 3-point shot a... BEN HOWLAND One of the things we want to do in introducing Meredith to our audience and of course bringing over ... MATT LAUER We're dealing with an immense kind of pressure to keep the quality up. It's make or break this seaso... NAVEEN ANDREWS If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this m... ALFRED P. SLOAN If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this m... ALFRED SLOAN I don't know if Mifflin shot it that well all year, but they shot it extremely well in the first hal... DAVE GUSTIN We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these... VINCE MCMAHON We've made no commitments at this point, but we've certainly considered the possibility of growing, ... RICHARD LEVIN We love the Lord with all our heart. I know this is a fund-raiser, but we can worship also. JEFF WHISNANT We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't under... MILAN KUNDERA We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't under... MILAN KUNDERA After the city lost all of its recreational supplies and equipment in the storm, at one point we wer... SEAN CAMPBELL Our bye week doesn't come until week 10. If we survive that long with all the injuries coming our wa... TOM BRADLEY We want to make sure we have a 360-degree approach to reach our target audience at every touch point... GILLIAN SMITH We know we have to compete hard for our business. And we think we will offer advertisers better valu... YUSUF MEHDI We lie to ourselves about the smallest details, and we lie to ourselves about our largest life choic... CORTNEY S. WARREN We looked at what this movie was about, what the themes in the movie were, at the audience we were t... DWIGHT CAINES We must also be able to free our minds from worries. This can easily be accomplished by allowing our... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We don't want to show films for the hell of it. We want our audience to enjoy it. BEN KENT At CNET, we are committed to building the Internet's largest database of products and prices for our... KEVIN MCKENZIE At CNET, we are committed to building the Internet's largest database of products and prices for our... KEVIN MCKENZIE This is our Lord's will, ... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large. For if we do not trust ... JULIANA OF NORWICH It was a matter of being in the right place at the right time with the right stuff. There was this g... ELVIN BISHOP All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never ... VINCENT D'ONOFRIO Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience. JERRY GARCIA When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M We were on tour so we couldn't make it. But we saw the movie in Tucson with a regular audience durin... BUTCH VIG Our job as directors is to really give the audience a sense that all this exists in a universe somew... JOSH GORDON We have no intention of duplicating those efforts. We get incredible content from our partners, but ... BRIAN NELSON We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but ... TOM BRADY If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks li... TOM CONTI This is an extremely tragic situation, and we don't know all the details. But our thoughts and praye... JOAN BONVICINI When we played at the Rave last time, it was one of our best shows. The audience was really into it. JACK JOSTES It's always good to have all aspects of the game come together and mold together. When we get all co... LACY HOWARD We value the loyalty this bowl has shown us. In this case, we know what we have in this bowl game an... MIKE ARESCO At this point I think we need to embrace the weird. High-five it. Give it our phone number. JIM ZUB The doubles point was critical. We came out flat, and they took it to us in doubles. But we've come ... ERIC HAYES In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us. VIRGINIA WOOLF One of our efforts in doing a lot of Shakespeare is, the more we do it, the more proficient our stud... JACK CIRILLO You have to give the audience what they want. Even if they tune in for 10 or 15 minutes it's nice to... JULIE CORDOVA The absolute motivation was really to give clarity and certainty to all our ecosystems so we can rea... JIM BALSILLIE An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ... ANUROOP TYAGI The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag. ROBERT ENGLUND We need to come up and make a name for ourselves. We had a really good week of practice and we know ... FROSTEE RUCKER Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, wit... CHARLES SPURGEON If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state ... SAMUEL JOHNSON Mr. Monroe looks like our prime suspect, but until we put these bullets to the test, we will not clo... CHIEF LEONARD GALLO What we wanted to create for the film was a sensual feeling using the traditional Japanese kimono as... COLLEEN ATWOOD We've wanted to do this for a while. We're trying to expand our audience base by doing something lig... LINDA CURTIS Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with ... JOHN CALVIN
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