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"I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive."
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"Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance."

"What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?"

"Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?"

"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."

"A lawyer's performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts."

"I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials."

"An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor."

"Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance."

"You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance."

"It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance."
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"But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens."

"City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference."

"But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive."

"The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems."

"In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement."

"The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead."
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