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"Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance."
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"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."

"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."

"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."

"I attended a symposium to hear Shilagh Mirgain, Ph.D. speak on Mindful Leadership. Throughout her program, I made sure to make eye contact and smile to support, affirm, and engage with her presentation. When audience members do this for me, it adds an extra punch of dynamic energy that enriches my presentations and improves my performance."

"No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect."

"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"

"As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform."

"One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song."

"It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on."

"Performance depends upon our actions an behaviors, which are activated by emotions, which are created when our MINDSET meets reality... Mindsets Matter Most."
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"There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it."


"I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine."


"Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?"


"But, my dear, I knew when I was a baby what I wanted to do, and I'll tell you, kiddo, if you don't do what your heart tells you, you'll never be real."


"Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance."
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