Nita Engle Quotes
Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.
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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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I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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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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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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Even though I've won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.
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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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I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.
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When markets are rallying, cash in the portfolio is a drag on performance, returning about zero.
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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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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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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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As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.
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I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!
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Nobody has milked one performance better than me – and I'm damned proud of it.
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I tried to do the impossible on paper -- beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds.
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In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
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I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.
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Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.
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Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.
