You spend so much time in the world of virtual that the actual - which nothing is more actual than stand-up - it's a painful experience for the audience, and the comedian a lot of time - we miss that.
Jerry SeinfeldRead
If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it's an incomparable experience.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the emotional fulfillment that comes from performing art successfully.
Jerry Seinfeld expresses the profound emotional connection that performers feel when they deliver a successful performance. He emphasizes that getting it right creates an irreplaceable sensation that resonates deeply, reflecting the unique joy and satisfaction that comes from artistic expression and audience engagement.
In practice
A motivational speech for aspiring artists about the joys of their craft.
You spend so much time in the world of virtual that the actual - which nothing is more actual than stand-up - it's a painful experience for the audience, and the comedian a lot of time - we miss that.
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You know why dogs have no money? No pockets. 'Cause they see change on the street all the time and it's driving them crazy. When you're walking them, he is always looking up at you. "There's a quarter...."
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There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, 'I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked.'
There is no such thing as an attention span. There is only the quality of what you are viewing. This whole idea of an attention span is, I think, a misnomer. People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them.
My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven.
Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones.
Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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