Quotes About Reception

There are three points about stories: if told, they like to be heard; if heard, they like to be taken in; and if taken in, they like to be told.

The last time you were here, we were poor hosts. But there are many delights we could show you.' 'Including a war,' puts in Grima Mog. 'What could be more delightful than that?

No one ever expects poetry to sell.

Bed is like the womb, only drier and with better TV reception.

Her parents, Austin Taylor and Kathleen Taylor, were big deals in Vancouver - they were civic leaders, and he raced horses in the Kentucky Derby - and my mother grew up a debutante. And when she and my dad were married, there were about a thousand guests at that reception.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.

I've made so many changes to my records because of the way the audience has reacted at the various festivals I've played - I've taken tracks back into the studio, stripped them bare, and built them back up again to create something entirely different.

Las Vegas has the type of audience - and they haven't changed since my father's days - they're still boring and bored. And there's only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to.

I did a picture called 'Lovely, Still' with Ellen Burstyn, We screened it to the AARP people in Las Vegas, 2000 of them. We got a standing ovation from people who couldn't stand.

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

The empty look on Beans's face indicated that the answer had reached his ears, but no farther.

Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

The way you present your work has a lot to do with how people receive and regard it.

Success is fleeting. It may not have to do with you but how your work is received.

My work is received more intelligently in Europe.

I'm a passionate person, and I care deeply about the work I do. It's very, very important to me that it's well received.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.

I feel like movies when they work they'll find an audience.

The studio should not have released this film.

Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it.

When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told me to be strong, but I confused to see it so weak You say never to give up, and it hurts to see what comes to be When your hero falls soley the stars, and so does the reception of tomorrow Without my hero, theres only me alone, to deal with my sorrow Your heart ceases to work, and your soul is not happy at all What are you expected to do, when your only hero falls