Performance Quotes
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When a director narrates a character, I find it normal to ask questions about the character's background, mood swings, eccentricities, behaviour... I do this to make my performance relatable. Directors who don't know their characters well find it difficult to answer these questions and, hence, find me annoying.
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I am an athlete first and foremost, and it is vital for my competitiveness, my well being, and for my preparations for events during the European summer that I measure my performance against other athletes.
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Performance in an endurance sport, as with many things, is only as good as the weakest link.
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I think it was a gift. For that performance, silver is generous.
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We were playing a lot of songs that Kiss hadn't played in years, or haven't played at all. One day, Doc McGhee, the manager, came into the dressing room, and said, 'We really need to film and record this show, because it's so good. It's probably the best Kiss performance I've seen.' So we said, 'OK.' That was the spark that got the whole thing going.
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Maybe in life, most of us feel inferior because we compare our dress rehearsals to Janelle Monae’s final performance.
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Funding for faith-based charities should be judged based on performance and results - not religion. Now, if our sin is that our religion can produce the results, then we plead guilty.
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All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.
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This is a stepping stone to bigger things hopefully. We'll celebrate it tonight. We needed the performance we've been talking about this week for the whole of the Six Nations and to put it in to win the Triple Crown feels good.
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The 70's and the 80's were a different time and there was so much fun in a live performance.
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I thought the world of live performance and busking was where I was going to thrive. I had no idea that digital streaming platforms and radio and that world would be for me, you know?
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Mistakes can be like ice. If we resist them, we may keep on slipping into a posture of defeat. If we include mistakes in our definition of performance, we are likely to glide through them and appreciate the beauty of the longer run.
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Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.
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For me, everything is a performance.
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It's 14 years since I left the club and that first-half performance was the worst I've seen since. It was devoid of quality, devoid of ideas, and worst of all, devoid of fight.
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A frequent change of role, and of the lighter sort - especially such as one does not like forcing one's self to use the very utmost of his ability in the performance of - is the training requisite for a mastery of the actor's art.
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Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy.
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There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.
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I wanted to be a pro volleyball player, and I fell in love with performance and audience response. The pressure of performing and doing something that I love doing in front of people who were grateful to see it. That relationship sort of worked out to be acting and theatre.
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God gets the easiest performance reviews.
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Set higher standards for you own performance than anyone around you, and it won't matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won't matter whether the competition is pushing you hard, because you'll be competing with yourself.
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The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.
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If exporters are looking at various factors which influence the performance, the fluctuating rupee will certainly be a factor.
