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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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"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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"It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance."
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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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"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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"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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"As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don't feel that."
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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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"The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance."
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"Performance is your reality. Forget everything else."
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"An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor."
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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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"Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs and they never will."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness."
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"No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance."
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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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"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 think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer."
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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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"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 kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth."
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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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"Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience."
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"Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears."
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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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"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'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."
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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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"When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality."
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"It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance."
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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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"Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away."
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"It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on."
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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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"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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"The only thing you owe the public is a good performance."
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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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"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 accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive."
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"Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over."
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"I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance."
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