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• A good or great performance is like peeling an onion; in every scene you reveal another layer, something the audience hasn't seen until then. They stay involved because they are constantly learning about and discovering the character they are watching. They can't take you for granted and it keeps them hooked.

  Larry Moss

  Character, Layers, Onions

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• People who focus on 'getting better' goals (also known as Personal Bests) as opposed to performance goals have a much better chance of success.

  Jill Konrath

  People, Goal, Focus

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• At that elusive moment when we transcend our ordinary performance and feel in harmony with something else-whether it's a glorious sunset, inspiring music or another human being-our studies have shown that what we are really coming in sync with is ourselves. Not only do we feel more relaxed and at peace, but this entrained state increases our ability to perform well and offers numerous health benefits.

  Doc Childre

  Music, Sunset, Ordinary

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• Rashida Jones is simply glorious. Andy Samberg shines in a grounded performance that digs deep, sharply funny and touching, a breath of fresh comic air!

  Peter Travers

  Air, Shining, Touching

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• Zach Galifianakis is a comic force of nature! He is terrific. He digs down here and delivers a beautifully nuanced performance that gets under your skin. Just like the movie.

  Peter Travers

  Skins, Comic, Force

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• People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.

  Brendon Burchard

  Long, People, Track

  "Motivation: 3 Themes for 2013" by Brendon Burchard, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2013.

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• When the brain isn't working properly and we don't understand how to calibrate the brain for optimal performance we are going to feel these doubts, fears and anxieties and most people when this happens they don't understand why and they let that paralyze them.

  John Assaraf

  People, Anxiety, Doubt

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have.

  Karen Abbott

  Rose, Desire, Half

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• Gypsy [Rose Lee], who was called Louise as a kid, gave her first performances here with her sister [June Hovac], playing for the local Masonic lodge halls. It was a tight-knit community, and the support and success the act enjoyed here enabled them to hit the road and make it in big-time vaudeville.

  Karen Abbott

  Kids, June, Rose

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• What's exciting to me is the live show medium itself; it's the last untouchable medium. I don't think it will ever go away. It has gone on from the beginning of time with little performances around a campfire, I'd imagine, like cavemen doing some chants, rhythm, and sounds, beating on things.

  Juliette Lewis

  Thinking, Going Away, Lasts

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• If I get no sleep the night before a show, I feel that performance is the best one.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Sleep, Night, Shows

  "Jesse Eisenberg explains why he hates watching his own movies". Interview by Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. March 31, 2016.

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• Being the free woman who is sexy and out there is a performance in a way, and being the stay-at-home mom and wife is a performance in itself. All of those performances are living and force you to make decisions about who you really are. Women have to put those performances ahead of things sometimes. Men aren't perceived in the same way.

  Robert Greene

  Mom, Sexy, Home

  Source: www.cineaste.com

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• There's a real tension between it being a collaborative art process, which is almost like performance art of yourself, and, as we talk about the movie, it's kind of a mix between melodrama and cinéma vérité. This involves ideas about playing the role of yourself and the movie of your life and all these other things.

  Robert Greene

  Art, Real, Ideas

  "Performance as Documentary: An Interview with Robert Greene (Web Exclusive)". Interview with Erik Luers, www.cineaste.com.

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• If we were controlling the performance, we never would have had someone push a button to make the pellet stove come on during a climatic moment. And after the loud pellet stove moment, which is like a Todd Haynes's Safe interruption into the home and into the narrative - as if the home is a like a ghost surrounding the characters - her performance changes entirely.

  Robert Greene

  Home, Character, Buttons

  "Performance as Documentary: An Interview with Robert Greene (Web Exclusive)". Interview with Erik Luers, www.cineaste.com.

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• When you're doing the same scene over and over, all day long, you need to keep your levels up for your own performance and for the other actors.

  Iwan Rheon

  Long, Needs, Actors

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• A few people said to me on the UK tour 'that feeling you're feeling is natural. Everyone feels nerves. But, you've got to use that to your advantage. You've got to use that nervous energy and pull it into your performance’. And, I'd never thought of that before.

  Ladyhawke

  People, Feelings, Energy

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

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• When you're writing fiction it's a heightened voice. You're trying to cast a spell, which isn't the same thing as trying to cast someone into it. You are creating a reality but it's a different sort of performance.

  Darryl Pinckney

  Writing, Reality, Voice

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.

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• Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about.

  Darryl Pinckney

  Talking, Criticism, Working It

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.

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• I never met Barry Crump, but I was in an audience once for a play once. There was a drunken man at the back of the auditorium that was shouting during a performance of a one man play, and it turned out later on that was Barry Crump and he was in a state of inebriation.

  Sam Neill

  Men, Play, States

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• It was at a performance art space that's no longer around, Gusto House... All of these great performers from all over the country lived on the Lower East Side, and they would take somebody's living room that opened right onto the street, open the door and charge tickets and put up chairs.

  John Leguizamo

  Country, Art, Doors

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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• The Musicians Union declared you couldn't mime on Top Of The Pops, which is obviously impossible, if you've got a studio-based record that you'd worked on for a year or something. And there were a lot of terrible performances. Because on Top Of The Pops, you were just thrown onstage.

  David Toop

  Years, Unions, Musician

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets.

  Amanda Schull

  Stage Performance, Cameras, Lenses

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• I like Beyoncé because of her tenacity and strength and for giving 1000 percent to her performances, which is a lost art these days. She's cut from the cloth of some of us that really like to perform are cut from. I'm a big Beyoncé fan.

  MC Hammer

  Art, Cutting, Giving

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• It was so much fun to have my very first TV (performance) be the holy grail of comedy, in my opinion. I was the guy from CHiPs and then I was Grizzly Adams. It was hysterical. We got to make out. It was really crazy, fun television.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Fun, Crazy, Guy

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

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• I thought that choosing a non-professional was a condition for me, because it would allow Juliette to have a less-professional way of acting. It would challenge her performance as a professional actress.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Challenges, Acting, Way

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.

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