Performance Quotes
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If you try to create someone else's performance, it becomes a facsimile of a facsimile.
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I was so mad I wasn't sitting at the stadium watching it Prince' 2007 Super Bowl performance in person. So when Prince came back to the box where I would have been after he performed, he said to my makeup artist, "Where's Stevie?" She said, "She's sick, and she was told by our manager that she would have to walk across the football field when the game was over in the mud and try to find a limo, so she made the decision that she couldn't do that." He was not happy that I wasn't there, and now today I'm not happy about it because I should have gone and I should have walked in that mud for him.
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I've spent most of my life trying to make actors comfortable, which I think is 90 percent of getting a good performance.
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The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people.
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It's very flattering to be remembered as a Bond girl with brains and not just for looking good in a bikini. I was a fan of Sophie Marceau in 'The World Is Not Enough.' I think her performance was very underrated.
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Sometimes I forget to say 'cut' because I am so lost in the performance.
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From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.
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What we choose to ask, when we ask, what our underlying attitude is as we ask—all are key to relationship building, to communication, and to task performance.
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It was an extraterrestrial performance. It is very special to go below 4:50, but I believe I can do better.
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I was doing experimental noise-based music and I learned a number of things about performance. I was playing small shows - sometimes without a PA - where people couldn't really hear me so I relied a lot on physicality and a sense of discomfort and risk.
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... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!
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In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.
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In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.
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Little Boy's performance is authentic, natural, moving & inspiring.
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But the connection between us was in the air, growing stronger with each stroke of his brush and with every cadenza of my piano performance as we struggled to find our unique voices. He by bringing musical tonality to his painting; me by unlocking my inner sluices, letting the palette of emotions spill freely into the art of my music.
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We had a chance to do it, but obviously, we didn't. We've got another chance next week, and hopefully, we'll do a better performance.
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The main things to rebel against - over-production, too much technology, overthinking. It's a spoiled mentality; everything is too easy. If you want to record a song, you can buy Pro Tools and record four hundred guitar tracks. That leads to overthinking, which kills any spontaneity and the humanity of the performance.
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Far from being a showbiz gimmick, for me dressing as I please has signalled the end of a lifelong performance of straightforward masculinity.
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The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can.
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I want to establish quality on both ends of the floor. It's very important going into the conference tournament that we're not just good on offense, but also good on defense. We have to have a better defensive conversion from offense to defense, we need to take care of the ball. I need to see a complete performance.
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It appears to be a quite general principle that, whenever there is a randomized way of doing something, then there is a nonrandomized way that delivers better performance but requires more thought.
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My sister tells me I began singing before I could even talk. My first performance was of a song called My Blue Heaven, which I began singing when I was a year and a half.
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I'm the type who'd rather not work than work on something I'm not into. I've done that a couple of times, and I feel like I can totally see it in my performance.
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I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.
