Thomas Hardy Quotes
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
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I've got a waistline to develop.
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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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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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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.
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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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People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.
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Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
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It is really, really wonderful that in your old age you are protected by specialists who understand your problems and sort them out for you. Well, isn't that what we all need?
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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.
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
