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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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"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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"Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance."
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"An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor."
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"My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled."
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"Performance is your reality. Forget everything else."
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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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"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."
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"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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"I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance."
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"As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don't feel that."
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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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"It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance."
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"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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"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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"I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness."
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"I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer."
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"Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?"
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"Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious."
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"Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears."
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"No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance."
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"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."
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"The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine."
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"I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal."
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"Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience."
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"Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your 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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"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 Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance."
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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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"Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance."
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"Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational."
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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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"The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance."
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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."
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"When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality."
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"Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance."
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"It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance."
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"Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs and they never will."
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"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."
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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."
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"I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again."
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"Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral."
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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."
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"I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance."
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"What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition."
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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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