Performing Quotes
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I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.
Paul Newman
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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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Learning and performing music have been rewarding, both physically and mentally. They helped me to mature and grow as a person.
George Li
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I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.
Steve Martin
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I still get nervous sometimes before performing.
Mariah Carey
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I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.
Ezra Furman
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Of course performing talent, that's clear. Maybe this is not so well-known among young people who are interested in music, who are talented in music, but they're trying to figure out how to go about it.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.
Sean O'Casey
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I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.
Carrie Fisher
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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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Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
Michael Tippett
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A preoccupation with achievement is not only different from, but often detrimental to, a focus on learning. Thoughts and emotions while performing an action are more important in determining subsequent engagement than the actual outcome of that action.
Alfie Kohn
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Donald Trump is already losing badly to Hillary Clinton. He is a weak candidate, and he's performing that way.
Evan McMullin
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What I enjoy most about performing is making people happy. Just to make a person smile means more to me than anything.
Michael Jackson
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Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.
Simon Callow
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I always liked performing in front of my parents' friends. My dad bought me a karaoke machine, and I would put on a Michael Jackson song like 'Thriller,' and I would come out with, like, a hat and a jacket, and, like, moonwalk in my socks, so I was always performing.
Nolan Sotillo
