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Performance Quotes
"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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"From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important."
50
"An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor."
48
"Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious."
48
"As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don't feel that."
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"Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance."
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"I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena."
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"My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise."
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"I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine."
44
"I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer."
44
"Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs and they never will."
44
"I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary."
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"No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance."
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"The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance."
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"I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone."
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"Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?"
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"I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness."
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"The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth."
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"I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance."
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"The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally."
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"The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner."
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"Performance is your reality. Forget everything else."
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"It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance."
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"Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away."
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"Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality."
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"It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance."
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"I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again."
39
"Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience."
39
"My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled."
38
"We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm."
38
"What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition."
37
"Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance."
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"I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena."
37
"This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal."
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"Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance."
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"The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage."
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"All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it."
37
"When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality."
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"I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them."
35
"Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears."
35
"It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself."
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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."
34
"The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so."
34
"Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational."
34
"Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance."
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"To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible."
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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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"I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal."
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"Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over."
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