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"An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise."
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"If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different."

"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."

"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."

"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."

"A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances."

"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"

"Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician."

"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."

"So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes."
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"Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time."

"Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously."

"I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine."

"I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me."

"Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food."

"During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches."
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