Richard Pryor Quotes
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I love to work with performers that are very different to me.
Flula Borg -
I didn't even know what a tour manager was, but I was the tour manager, booking agent, all that stuff for almost two years without knowing it. I wasn't overwhelmed, because I enjoyed doing it.
Luke Combs -
I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.
Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel -
I think Phil Collins is one of the most underrated musicians, singers, performers - he is absolutely amazing, I think, and I think hes probably got a bit of a rough ride occasionally because he became so mainstream and so popular.
Rick Astley -
She came in and enjoyed some success as a freshman and sophomore and then she got voted as a captain. She's been a tremendous leader, a solid performer and we're going to miss her bright smile every day.
Jack Warner -
... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.
Leontyne Price
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Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.
Brian Tracy -
Television's very much a writer's medium, as it probably should be, but if you're not the writer, then as the performer, you defer to that. It's just kind of how it's constructed. Is there some leeway? Yeah. But I also don't want to come across as a jerk.
Jim Gaffigan -
There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.
Abraham Lincoln -
I really enjoyed the performance tonight, and I've had a whole week of unknowns, being in bed with the flu. Ice is slippery, and anything can happen to anybody. I have seen that at numerous events. I am going to have fun out there and trust my training and not worry. I have figured out that worry doesn't help.
Sasha Cohen -
They who are to be judges must also be performers.
Aristotle -
Something was different since even before I can remember. I was always enthralled with things the girls were doing. Whenever my parents were gone, I would experiment with my mother's makeup. And wondered why I enjoyed doing that Wondered why I couldn't carry a purse.
J. M. Roberts
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I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.
William Shatner -
I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.
William Shatner -
And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.
William Shatner -
We did some promotion work in small European clubs last summer and really enjoyed it. It gives people the chance to see you up close. We see all venues as a different challenge and we have songs that can work in all environments, even if we have to change the arrangements.
Jim Kerr Simple Minds -
Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.
John Ruskin -
I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.
Richard Widmark
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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
Edmund Husserl -
I support the idea that artists have to make a stand. I'm with that - you're putting the discussion on the table and you're letting people know. You're being brave as an artist and responsible to the community.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I've never seen the stars before. And I never knew they were so beautiful.
Beth Revis -
My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.
William C. Wright -
I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.
Richard Pryor