Caster Semenya Quotes
I am an athlete first and foremost, and it is vital for my competitiveness, my well being, and for my preparations for events during the European summer that I measure my performance against other athletes.
Quotes to Explore
-
It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
-
I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.
-
Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
-
What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
-
Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.
-
Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.
-
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.
-
Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.
-
I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
-
If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.
-
Maybe I am just a jerk.
-
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
-
When you see a comedian on stage, the best comedians make it feel like a conversation. But it's not. We have very little interest in what an audience has to say during a performance. Being a stand-up comedian, you're an egomaniac to some degree. Everyone wants to hear what you have to say, apparently. That's not how real relationships work.
-
When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
-
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
-
I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!
-
I am never so happy as when I am really engaged in good earnest, & it makes me must wonderfully cheerful & merry at other times, which is curious & very satisfactory.
-
Nobody has milked one performance better than me – and I'm damned proud of it.
-
Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.
-
History has a way of coming back to you. In the case of Janis Joplin appearing at the festival in 1968, her performance affected the life of a Bostonian who is now a member of the Newport Festivals Foundation Board of Directors. Ward Mooney was so affected and emotionally involved in Janis’ performance at Newport, that when he heard the festival was going nonprofit, he knew wanted to become a part. Janis was beautiful, gracious and respectful, and the power of her Newport performance continues to live on.
-
I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic that life brings and that life is really special and every life matters. We tend to go through life but not take the moment to step back and remember you are here, right now, for a very finite amount of time.
-
I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
-
All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
-
I am an athlete first and foremost, and it is vital for my competitiveness, my well being, and for my preparations for events during the European summer that I measure my performance against other athletes.
