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"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."

"Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician."

"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."

"If life is a stage and you are your own agent, then don't hesitate to play the character you wish to play."

"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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"For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'"

"Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert."

"The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people."

"I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs."

"We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do."

"Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?"

"Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer."
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