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.
It’s unequivocal: everyplace I go, the one line I can use in a speech that I know will get applause is when I say it’s time for a new generation of leadership in our party.
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
Part of me would love to have been a leading lady because there’s a lot of glamour that goes with that and a lot of applause, but I’ve been very blessed.
When I was 3, I recited a poem at a festival in Passaic, New Jersey. The applause was tremendous, and it hit me that I could affect people positively by performing.
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.
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