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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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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Comedians are the most challenging people for me to shoot. Because you're not actually in the dialogue with them, they are performing. When I work with a comedian, I become their audience.
Norman Seeff
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I enjoy performing for heavily armed people. It's easier than going to Georgia.
Robin Williams
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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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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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No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.
Steve Martin
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For me, there's nothing like performing.
John Prine