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"To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come."
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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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"When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow."
"Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast."
"An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head."
"There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race."
"If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to."
"We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon."
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