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Performance Quotes
"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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"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 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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"If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash."
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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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"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 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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"An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise."
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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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"Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie."
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"I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials."
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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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"All you owe the public is a good performance."
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"When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start."
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"To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it."
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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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"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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"Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting 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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"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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"If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons."
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"You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance."
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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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"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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"Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate."
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"An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance."
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"So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes."
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"The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept."
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"A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance."
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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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"The real secret of magic lies in the performance."
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"Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance."
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"The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance."
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"An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise."
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"What we've seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge... unless the penalty is an absolute deterrent."
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"I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen."
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"Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance."
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"I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do."
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"I think these awards are always nice for a player but they also reflect well on the club. It shows that Arsenal's performance have been noted all around the world and it helps by having so many good players around me."
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"Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked."
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"I had a flair for comedy and could give a sustained performance."
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"I try to get the best performance an actor can give."
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"You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance."
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"I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt."
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"Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it."
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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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"I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation."
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