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Performance Quotes
"Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance."
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"One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service."
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"The one that sang, old Janine, was always whispering into the g***** microphone before she sang. She'd say, 'And now we like to geeve you our impression of Vooly Voo Fransay. Eet ees the story of leetle Fransh girl who comes to a beeg ceety, just like New York, and falls een love wees a leetle boy from Brookleen. We hope you like eet.' Then, when she was all done whispering and being cute as hell, she'd sing some dopey song, half in English and half in French, and drive all the phonies in the place mad with joy."
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"Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach."
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"That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together."
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"I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?"
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"The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so."
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"A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed."
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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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"Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital."
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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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"The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event."
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"The only thing you owe the public is a good performance."
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"The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists."
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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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"Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed."
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"I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal."
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"When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket."
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"Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be."
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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 am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."
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"The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive."
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"What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?"
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"I try to get the best performance an actor can give."
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"I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive."
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"Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance."
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"I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance."
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"An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise."
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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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"It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some day, when they make it in the All Star Game, it will be because of their own natural talents, and not because of a performance enhancing product."
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"If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash."
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"I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films."
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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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"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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"When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity."
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"The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections."
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"The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities."
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"It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England."
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"I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance."
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"The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before."
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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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"All you owe the public is a good performance."
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"I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level."
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"Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance."
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"One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors."
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"Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance."
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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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