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Performance Quotes
"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'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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"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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"I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance."
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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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"He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace."
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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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"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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"The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth."
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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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"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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"To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible."
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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 only thing you owe the public is a good performance."
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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 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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"With NOAH, you can create some stunning, yet original soundscapes. Therefore, as a performance tool, it really comes into its own because you can make one single performance which has a lot of detail."
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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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"One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors."
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"I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun."
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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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"So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see."
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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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"Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales."
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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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"The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner."
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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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"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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"The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so."
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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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"Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy."
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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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"Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate."
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"When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows."
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"I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission."
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"I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials."
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"Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance."
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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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"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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"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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"So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English."
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"I have never taken any substance to enhance my 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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"The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment."
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"A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team."
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"When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket."
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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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