Performances Quotes
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Dance every performance as if it were your last.
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The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The coach applauds strengths, identifies weaknesses, points up principles, offers guiding and often inspiring imagery, and decides what kind of practice to emphasize.
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Drugs won't enhance your performance.
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When you go on a stage - or even in a café or a room - and you play it's all happening right then and there: the exchange, the art, the communication. Performance is in the moment.
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I'm not impressed by your performance.
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Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
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You know that this vignette and that vignette belong side by side, you know that a certain turn of phrase you've been saving will probably work best within a given section of the narrative. As in a jazz performance, writing lives or dies by what's produced in that moment. But that moment is attended by long preparation.
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The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.
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Do you have agendas for your children that are more important than the children themselves? Lost in the shuffle of uniforms, practices, games, recitals, and performances can be the creative and joyful soul of your child. Watch and listen carefully. Do they have time to daydream? From their dreams will emerge the practices and activities that will make self-discipline as natural as breathing.
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There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, so I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.
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Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
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Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance.
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I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.
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In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.
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I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.
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I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at the Royal Variety Performance it brought back such happy memories. You have your own eminent place in the history of British music. You stand for excellence in a great tradition and your work for charity is both an example and an inspiration.
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Performances will determine who actually ends up being the eighth-inning guy.
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Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
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I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning theater performances in one-third-filled church basements. So, I paid my dues.
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Our behaviour as an athlete is often determined by our previous experiences and how we dealt with those experiences. It is these experiences from past performances that can often shape what will happen in the future. It is for this reason that you learn and move on to be more mentally stronger as both an athlete and as a human!
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The clubs usually enforce no filming of performances pretty well. I want to know that what I'm doing is in the here and now and it's mine. I absolutely want control over my performances. And it is actually scary to see someone filming you without permission. Like Big Brother is watching. All these cameras don't make up for a life that isn't well-lived! I agree that people don't live in the moment, they instead live to make a name for themselves as "people who are living exciting lives and at great events".
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What I don't like too much really is individual comments about the performances of the players after the game.
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All you owe the public is a good performance.
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In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.
