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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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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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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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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Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.
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In performance, you don't always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.
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Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
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Live each day as if it were your last, and you’ll develop a keen respect for opportunity.
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Though no one speaks of it, I sometimes wonder if we are marching toward extinction with each performance, too busy dancing and flying through the air to see it.
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Shared laughter is erotic too.
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I spent so much time in my bedroom. It really was my entire world. I had books up there, my music up there, my record player. Going from my world upstairs out onto the street, I had to pass through this no-man's-land of the living room, you know, and out the front hall.
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Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.
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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.
