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"Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away."
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"Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance."

"What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?"

"Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?"

"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."

"A lawyer's performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts."

"I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials."

"An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor."

"Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance."

"You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance."

"It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance."
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"A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason."

"Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented."

"You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work."

"Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization."

"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."
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