Harold Stephen Black Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.
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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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You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.
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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.
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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.
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It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you're carrying it all.
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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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Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices.
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I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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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.
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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In the 'Angel' days, all there was was a community that was like a chat room. If you were looking for feedback, you had to look for it.
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I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
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It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.
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Books are still my favorite present.
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We have seen the extent of the desecration and destruction of the facilities of the finest institution in the country.
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That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.
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We have to put our house in order. It's an urgent call and an urgent need.
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Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.
