Performances Quotes
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We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.
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I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.
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I don't want to be an exception, because I was very outspoken about Performance Enhancing Drugs. It would be bad for my reputation if I would have an exemption for doping test - I don't want to have a free pass, I want to be like everybody else.
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For me, performance is about forgetting what I'm wearing. Just putting it on and knowing it's right.
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Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.
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Clearly there have been some very strong performances in the computer technology stocks. This is an area that's growing rapidly, and there's a lot of excitement in the market.
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The music I do in live performances is made for a specific situation. I know that people are sitting down and shutting up and they're with me for 90 minutes. They're totally with me. Whatever I do, I know they have my attention and they follow my pace.
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Certainly half a dozen of the team will be looking anxiously over their shoulder and their performances will be under close scrutiny in the coming months.
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I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'
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I thought I wanted to be a performing and recording artist, and played many recitals and performances beginning in the 1970s. In the 1980s I went to the British Library and ordered and received reels of historical women and men keyboard composers, and thus was born Vivace Press.
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I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.
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Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.
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Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control
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It's been an amazing year of individual performances.
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I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.
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We got sick of interviews and performances - for a long time, it came back to doing 'Take on Me.' It became a circus number instead of music.
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How much we like ourselves governs our performance.
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Sam [Mendes] said he took advantage of the fact that Kate and I were so close for many years. He knew it was something he could harness in our performances, and we knew that too.
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You're never in control. That - that is the greatest fallacy of the - you know, there's over 200 people that it requires to make a film. And there's people who are in control of how you look, what your performance is, what takes are used, what - you're only in control of how you say no.
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I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
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This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. And they say Obama's not black enough!
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Don't try to be just like some other singer hitting it big - find your own style and be honest in your performances. And never underestimate your audience.
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For example, there's no word emocionó in English, so I have to say, "You, you really emotioned me," It's more precise, even though it sounds odd. "My father emotioned me." Or "That performance really emotioned to me."
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The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all through the inferred lapse of time which the inferred performance of inferred geological processes involves, they have been going on in a manner consistent with the laws of nature as we know them now.
