Stage Quotes
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I think with the live shows it's giving you that opportunity to do something on stage that you don't normally do.
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The stage is near and dear to me.
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Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was 1957, before civil rights. He showed me how to take her [holding her delicately by the wrist]. He said, ‘put your hand on top.’ The skin colors were part of the choreography. He saw what was going to happen in the world and put it on stage.
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There is a difference when you work with actors who have worked on the stage. When we're out there in front of an audience eight times a week, you can't do it on your own.
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But when I went on the stage to do a show, I would put on makeup because I felt that it enhanced my act; it drew attention to what I was doing.
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When I do my solo concerts, I'm used to being on the stage for two hours solid, singing 16 songs. And when I did 'Funny Thing,' I was on the stage the whole time. This is much more difficult. It's the difference between racing and sprinting. This is sprinting. And I have to learn to pace myself.
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Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.
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I wasn't comfortable on stage for years. It was good - 18 shows. I want to do it again.
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For a long time I wanted to hide backstage or under the stage.
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We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.
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Fitness is a huge part of my life. It always has been, and hopefully always will be! You have to have a level of fitness to be able to rap and jump around on stage anyway.
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You don't step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.
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Right now I can't be sure that I will be back on stage. We have been touring for two years and that is way too much.
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I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.
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If me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it's not quite right if he's not on stage with me.
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If you don't trust everybody on stage with you, then you're in trouble.
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That's the thing: when I'm on stage, I don't care; there could be ten people there, there could be ten million people there. But if I'm offstage, I'm, like, counting the people. I know exactly where everyone's standing, how far they are from me.
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Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It's the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.
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I could beat my mike stand into the stage, but I was still in pain. Maybe fans liked it, but sometimes people forget you're a person and they're more into the entertainment value. It's taken a long time to turn that around and give a strong show without it being a kamikaze show.
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The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.
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Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.
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And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.
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Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
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To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was.
