Natalie Zemon Davis Quotes
In later years I never put aside this kind of inquiry, that is, into the modes of thinking and representation embedded in a text, but I asked new questions about ways of writing and the forms and rituals of discourse. I began to look not only at what was stated or declared in a text, but also at what was suggested through expression, through performance.Natalie Zemon Davis
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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.
Jack Falahee -
I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
Taslima Nasrin -
What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -
I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
Larry Wilmore -
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.
Walter Cronkite -
You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
Hank Azaria
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Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.
Wayne Rogers -
Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.
Samantha Power -
Ben Stiller, who I love and who is a friend and is such an incredible actor - he's hilarious, obviously, but I thought his performance in 'Greenberg' was extraordinary.
Laura Dern -
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
E. O. Wilson -
We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
Eckhart Tolle -
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar Wilde
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Samuel Johnson -
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
Maggie Smith -
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
Harold S. Geneen -
From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.
Vince McMahon -
I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!
Becky G -
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.
Earle Brown
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Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
Gavin Newsom -
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.
LL Cool J -
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
In later years I never put aside this kind of inquiry, that is, into the modes of thinking and representation embedded in a text, but I asked new questions about ways of writing and the forms and rituals of discourse. I began to look not only at what was stated or declared in a text, but also at what was suggested through expression, through performance.
Natalie Zemon Davis