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• We all know that much of what we hear in life is not really so. Canned laughter and ‘sweetened’ applause have been TV staples for decades, and all the slamming doors, breaking glass and squealing tires you hear in movies are sound effects.

  Serge Schmemann

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  Tags in Applause, Decades

• Do not trust to the cheering, for those very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

  Oliver Cromwell

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• Evil report carries further than any applause.

  Baltasar Gracián

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  Tags in Evil, Applause

• 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.

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Applause

• Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that’s very rare.

  Claudia Ann Christian

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  Tags in Applause, Respond

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  Edmund Burke

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• A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.

  Phyllis Diller

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  Tags in Applause, Judged

• Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

  Elias Canetti

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• From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

  Zac Efron

  Topics in Laughter

  Tags in Addicted, Applause

• 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.

  Emanuel Ax

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  Tags in Listeners, Performers, Applause

• Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.

  Emanuel Ax

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  Tags in Self, Want, Applause

• All of us love applause, and so we should – it means that the listener likes us!

  Emanuel Ax

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  Tags in Applause

• There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

  Lynn Abbey

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  Tags in Applause, Round, Unexpected, Compare

• Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

  William Feather

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  Tags in Bound, Applause, Speech, Journalist

• What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

  Bob Dylan

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  Tags in Applause, Eat, Sleep

• The lights go down, you hear the applause and you’re up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

  Warren Cuccurullo

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  Tags in Applause, Forgotten

• I don’t really feel that I deserve all my applause.

  Willie Stargell

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  Tags in Applause, Deserve

• Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.

  Anita Baker

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  Tags in Applause, Temporarily, Approval

• Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Applause, Sarcasm

• As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

  Lance Morrow

  Tags in Applause, Communal