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"I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena."
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"All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it."
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"The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept."
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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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"The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage."
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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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"There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge."
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"I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation."
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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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"If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them."
Hell
"I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble."
Society
"I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena."
Performance
"If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming."
People
"Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names."
Business
"Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train."
Emotional
"My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'."
Family
"I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena."
Performance
"The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work."
Work
"I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids."
Basketball
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