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It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.

— Cate Blanchett

I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.

— Dave Sim

The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The outline is great; the stories are great. But how do you engage them? How do you make it feel like we are on a journey, not you are just up there giving me information.

— Andy Stanley

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.

— Billy Graham

If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

— Oscar Isaac

Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining.

— Thalia

It's too hard to present an opinion on something that's not true to who you are. It's much easier to base opinions and debates off of fact and your true heart on things. To me that just comes quite naturally, and it's also about being open to what the debate is about and hearing the other side.

— Elisabeth Hasselbeck

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

— Garry Wills

I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to. I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.

— Dave Sim

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

— Jonathan Carroll