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Performance Quotes
"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 always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance."
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"When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket."
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"Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational."
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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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"I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?"
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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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"One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors."
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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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"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 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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"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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"Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be."
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"An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise."
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"I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It's absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I'm okay. It's like I'm out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me."
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"The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists."
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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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"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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"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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"All you owe the public is a good performance."
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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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"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 accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive."
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"Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve 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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"The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance."
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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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"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."
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"I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal."
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"Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance."
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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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"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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"If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash."
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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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"Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white."
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"In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium."
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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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"No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don't think anyone can argue that it was a false performance."
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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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"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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"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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"I have never taken any substance to enhance my 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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"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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