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Sydney Smith

"The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"They got a great performance from me. I was happy."

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Donna Grant

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

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Sydney Smith
"Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up."

Clothes

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Sydney Smith
"Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737."

Time

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Sydney Smith
"What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!"

Fans

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Sydney Smith
"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style."

Idea

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Sydney Smith
"Live always in the best company when you read."

Company

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Sydney Smith
"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."

Illusion

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Sydney Smith
"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."

Men

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Sydney Smith
"Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect."

Love

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Sydney Smith
"Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in."

Chance

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Sydney Smith
"As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen."

Men

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