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"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."
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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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"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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"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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"Let your performance do the thinking."
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"Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate."
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"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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"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."
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"An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise."
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"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."
Performance
"I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution."
Influence
"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
Poems
"It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway."
Now
"The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming."
Poetry
"New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts."
Thought
"I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book."
Wrong
"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."
Creativity
"My self-editing process is intense."
Self
"Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige."
Money
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