A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.

  • -- Terence Rattigan 拉提根

剧作家必须是他自己的观众。小说家可能几页就失去读者;剧作家一刻也不敢失去观众。

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I've always been switching around the show to accommodate the audience, and you know it really makes it a lot more fun for me and keeps it fresh so that I'm not complacent with the same show every night and with every audience.

我一直在换节目来适应观众,你知道,这真的让我觉得更有趣,保持新鲜感,这样我就不会每天晚上都对同一个节目和每个观众感到自满。

I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.

我总是在民意测验中输掉选举,我总是在选举日获胜。

In the South, it is different, they have a audience that is literate.

在南方,情况就不同了,他们有受过教育的观众。

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

无论你拥有什么,要么使用,要么失去。