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"Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious."
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"I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive."
"I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance."
"I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance."
"I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen."
"I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do."
"He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace."
"You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance."
"To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible."
"Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales."
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"For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction."
"In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief."
"Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship."
"For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men."
"The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members."
"Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession."
"Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule."
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