Performing Quotes
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I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very important to get the audience on your side. As for a competition, you can't win without strong technical content.
Evgeni Plushenko
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The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.
Willem Dafoe
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That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!
Michael Strahan
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You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and - which happened out of practicing piano when I was a kid.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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Being onstage and performing, the high of that, and people coming to see you, and getting to make them laugh - that's what gets me hyped up. It's a nervous excitement.
Andrew Dice Clay
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I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.
Missi Pyle
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Performing, not rehearsing, is a dancer's raison d'etre, and I've been lucky to 'etre' in some extraordinary places - Cuba, Paris, Mongolia. In particular, a two-week stint in Greece leaps to mind. We danced in the Acropolis's Herodes Atticus amphitheater, once a venue for gladiator spectacles.
Sascha Radetsky
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If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put all my feelings, my very soul, into my writing. I tell the world in my songs things I wouldn't even tell my husband.
Dolly Parton
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My mom is an art teacher and is very much into the performing arts. What can I say? She is the female in my life and has guided me on how to act and conduct myself. A lot of my strength comes from her.
Erin Andrews
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I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.
Ricky Jay
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I want my soldiers - I mean artists - to be young and strong, with tireless energy performing impossible feats of cunning and bravura.
Rene Ricard
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Performing is the one time I don't have anxiety - surprisingly, right?
Lil Xan
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It's unbelievable, that's for sure, it underlines for me personally, this seven years where I've been performing at this level, I think this is worth the most.
Marcel Hirscher
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Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.
Harry Vardon
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My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next. Enjoyment while performing was rare - enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford.
Steve Martin
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I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.
Seth Lloyd