Performance Quotes
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When you're doing the same scene over and over, all day long, you need to keep your levels up for your own performance and for the other actors.
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When you're writing something new, writing something that's your own, basically you have nothing else to do except either invent a trick, use someone else's trick, or have no trick and get a bad performance.
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Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute acting performance.
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Make peace with the fear of defeat... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.
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The fact is that I'm interested in getting on with my job of holding the Government to account and I think that the Government should get on with the job of effectively running the country and not making excuses for poor performance, not lowering expectations. Their job is to deliver on their election commitments.
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The thing about Janis is that she just looked so unique, an ugly duckling dressed as a princess, fearlessly so. Seeing her live was like watching a boxing match. Her performance was so in your face and electrifying that it really put you right there in the moment. There you were living your nice little life in the suburbs and suddenly there was this train wreck, and it was Janis.
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Whereas a good player might do something really good in a game, a great player might do something two or three times in a row. That's what great players do, but they also work incredibly hard off the field in terms of the extra effort they've put into making sure their own performance gets better.
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The Second Law: Performance is bounded, but success is unbounded.
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You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.'
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The miracle of the Atonement can make up for imperfections in our performance.
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If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.
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It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.
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Remember your six P's - Perfect Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
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The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.
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I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.
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I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that.
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The high-performance packaging not only delivers distinction at point of sale, but also reflects the edgy personalities of products they hold.
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It is exciting to have these great musicians perform at a dynamic performance venue like Long Island University's Kumble Theater. I am grateful to the University for providing the central Brooklyn community with access to world-class productions at the Kumble Theater.
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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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Design patterns should not be applied indiscriminately. Often they achieve flexibility and variability by introducing additional levels of indirection, and that can complicate a design and/or cost you some performance. A design pattern should only be applied when the flexibility it affords is actually needed.
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Once I learned how to be a healthy vegan by eating the right foods my performance improved dramatically.
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As actors, we want to challenges ourselves and put ourselves in different situations to see how we react and deliver a performance.
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I'd do anything to get a performance, short of malice.
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Defeat is a wonderful experience if it motivates you to never forget you're only as good as your last performance.
