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"In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium."
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"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."
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"He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous."
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"To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it."
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"It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England."
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"I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance."
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"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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"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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"A lawyer's performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts."
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"Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational."
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"Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital."
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"I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking."
Despair
"Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable."
Habit
"I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I."
Blind
"Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it."
Determination
"Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly."
Gift
"I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow."
Living
"There are no ugly ducklings."
Ugly
"Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others."
Enthusiasm
"A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent."
Voice
"As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life."
Life
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