Performances Quotes
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I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.
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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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The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades is the least important performance statistic and may even be inversely related to performance.
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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
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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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Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.
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Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.
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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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Early practice is vital so that performances became totally ingrained and flow from the subconscious.
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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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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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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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Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.
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Rested, Refreshed, and Ready to run, the three Rs of peak performance.
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I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.
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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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I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.
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As a group of people, New Order acted like a divorcing husband and wife: we couldn’t even be bothered to hate one another any more. We’d simply stopped caring about each other. We played our guts out most nights – I like to think we didn’t let our band politics affect the performances – but as soon as we were offstage all our heart was lost again.
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Audiences tend to get the performances they deserve.
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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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There's a big difference in doing a play or doing any project that not a lot of people see and then a project that you know everyone will see. There is more pressure, performance anxiety per se. And then when you do and what you love is really put to test.
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If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.
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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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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.
