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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace."
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"The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance."
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"Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance."
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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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"Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears."
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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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"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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"It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance."
10
"Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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."
9
"I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive."
9
"Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?"
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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 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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"No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance."
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"I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer."
8
"The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner."
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"The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance."
8
"The voters reward good performance. So, I'm going to go out and focus, if I become the governor, to do the very best job I can as governor. The rest of it will take care of itself."
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"As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive."
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"Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself."
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"I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal."
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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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"The only thing you owe the public is a good performance."
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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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"Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious."
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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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"An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance."
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"Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience."
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"I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance."
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"An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor."
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"When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted."
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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 remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning."
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