Richard Pryor Quotes
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I love to work with performers that are very different to me.
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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.
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I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.
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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.
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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.
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... 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.
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Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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They who are to be judges must also be performers.
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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.
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I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.
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I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.
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And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.
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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.
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I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.
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Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.
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Except for the two years he had lived with cowboys in North Dakota,and being the employer of a dozen or so servants,Roosevelt had never had to suffer any prolonged intimacy with the working class.From infancy,he had enjoyed the perquisites of money and social position.The money,through his own mismanagement,had often run short,and he was by no means wealthy even now, but he had always taken exclusivity for granted.
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Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match.
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People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, "What's your occupation?" I say, "I'm just a simple gardener." And that is deeply seditious.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.
