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"Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked."
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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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"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
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"They got a great performance from me. I was happy."
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"Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician."
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"We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly."
Work
"When they thought of me, they always remembered the vacuous Billie Dawn. It was as simple as that."
Thought
"I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable."
Experience
"I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg."
Losing
"I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward."
Idea
"You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment."
Attention
"Now with all this movie business, everybody's coming around wanting to know everything that's happened since I was four. It's like going to an analyst."
Business
"Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously."
People
"I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American."
Knowledge
"I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home."
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