Performances Quotes
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I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.
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Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.
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Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.
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When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
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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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A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.
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Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.
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There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge.
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To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.
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Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.
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Comedians don`t get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can`t really speak about the Oscar-worthiness of my own performance.
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You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.
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You know. I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes. All that kind of stuff to do sometimes, to do good performances, but always conducive to having a good time creatively.
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... All the drivers that started the replace-tape-with-disk movement in the first place - reliability, performance, portability and off-site data movement - are now liabilities in a disk only strategy.
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Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control
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Rested, Refreshed, and Ready to run, the three Rs of peak performance.
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Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.
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The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.
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Mary Kay knew that when you put people first and then surround them with processes and disciplines that recognize their efforts, performance will soar.
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The other thing is that when people mention computers - and I'm pretty much the same - they find it hard to comprehend that there's a performance there. They look at it as something that's just been made by a computer but in a way the difference is that when you make a normal film - and I'm simplifying it here - you put on the make-up and you put the scenery in before you start shooting, but with this you still perform in the same way but then you put the make-up on after, along with the costumes and scenery.
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Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.
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I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.
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The hardest scene for me is always the scene when I'm dealing with performances, when I'm actually looking at the guys and hoping that I'm covering it in the right way and that I'm handling it in the right way.
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I like the energy of live performance.
