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"I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again."
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"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."
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"Save yourselves!" Percy warned. "It is too late for us!" Then he gasped and pointed to the spot where Frank was hiding. "oh no! Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin!" Nothing happened. "I said," Percy repeated, "Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin." Frank stumbled out of nowhere, making a big show of grabbing his throat. "oh no," he said, like he was reading from a teleprompter, "I am turning into a crazy dolphin."
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"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."
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"I love a finished speaker I really truly do. I don't mean one who's polished I just mean one who's through."
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"The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be careful. Drunk as they were they could immediately detect any false gesture, any false word. You could never underestimate an audience. They had paid to get in; they had paid for drinks; they intended to get something and if you didn't give it to them they'd run you right into the ocean."
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"Let your performance do the thinking."
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"The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event."
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"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."
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"If life is a stage and you are your own agent, then don't hesitate to play the character you wish to play."
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"I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun."
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"I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop."
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"I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something."
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"The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer."
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"I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again."
Performance

"I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America."
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"I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative."
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"I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots."
Pretty

"That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other."
Lawyers

"I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it."
Family

"Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served."
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