Performances Quotes - Page 11

• Miss Havisham is an important feminine literary figure in the tradition of Antigone (though it's significant that Antigone is fighting to bury something and Miss Havisham refuses, as it were, to bury the corpse). Like Hamlet, she's focused on what everyone would rather not know or would like to forget, and she seems crazy / stuck as well as bitter, but she's also a perfect prototype of a performance artist. She's intentionally hard to deal with inviting the audience to remain with the violated body, the evidence of violence.

  Laura Mullen

  Crazy, Fighting, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The performance group The Ant Farm redoing JFK's assassination in Dallas was an event that struck a chord with me, especially when one of the members said they'd only intended to do it once, but the Dallas audience insisted they repeat the performance.

  Laura Mullen

  Dallas, Groups, Events

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was bored to death and thinking more about the minibar and the after-show party than the performance.

  Volker Bertelmann

  Party, Thinking, Bored

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.

  Beck

  Remember You, Remembers You, Guitar

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

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• When I did "Top of the Pops" for the first time, Ace of Base was one of the other bands, and I have a memory of them on a small stage next to me in the TV studio. A memory of their performance is burned into my mind. Seared.

  Beck

  Memories, Mind, Aces

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

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• I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Taken, Thinking, Needs

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Spells, Book, Sleater-Kinney". Interview with Amy Phillips, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2008.

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• There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase of the show within fixed cue points, but at the same time there is a constant result that we are trying to achieve each night while performing and operating our system - quite similar in spirit to a broadway show for example: If you go see a musical two nights in a row, the performances are different yet similar.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Night, Two, Musical

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• So guys who are otherwise sensitive and thoughtful say and do ridiculously dumb things to impress other guys. It's an enormous performance, but guys know that if they fail, they'll be ridiculed as sissies mercilessly.

  Michael Kimmel

  Thoughtful, Guy, Dumb

  "How hookups and hang-ups delay manhood". TODAYshow.com Interview, www.today.com. August 03, 2010.

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• Bridal is very much a performance - it is the one grand event in every woman's life.

  Austin Scarlett

  Events, Bridal

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think one of the biggest things that's changed in terms of the rapport with the crowd is that now crowds come to hear our songs. We're getting closer and closer to an artist performance.

  A-Trak

  Song, Thinking, Artist

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I think that I burnt myself out a little bit with my dancing because I did so much of it. I was exhausted so thought that I would try a different kind of performance and expression and acting seemed like a close fit; it was similar in some ways to dancing. My mum showed me some really good films and so I became interested in films and acting.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Thinking, Expression, Dancing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist.

  Paul Reubens

  Artist, Comic, Easier

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People who are great thinkers, in science or in art, people who are great performers, have to have that kind of capacity. Without that kind of capacity, it's extremely difficult to manage a high level of performance because you're going to get a lot of extraneous material chipping away at the finery of your thinking or the finery of your motor execution.

  Antonio Damasio

  Art, Thinking, People

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. August 10, 2010.

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• I set very bold goals. It's how I've always been. I'm definitely somebody who swings for the fences, and I expect very high performance.

  Ivanka Trump

  Swings, Goal, Fence

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview With Rachel Gillett, uk.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.

  Patti Smith

  Style, Ginsberg, Beatnik

  "Rocker Patti Smith, 'Dream Of Life'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 30, 2009.

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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.

  Sandra Bullock

  People, Looks, Film

  "Sandra Bullock: Just Really Happy To Be Nominated". "Morning Edition" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 19, 2010.

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• Sexualization is the performance of sexuality, the performance of sexiness. Girls are super good at that now.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Sexuality, Sexiness

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• A lot of festivals can be a jumble of electronic music and rock and roll, and everything's all mixed up - some things are more performance art or light shows or dance parties, and then you'll have a singer-songwriter stuck in the middle to make the changeovers easier.

  Jenny O.

  Art, Rock And Roll, Light

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You walk a fine line when you have a performance at a show just as you do with having celebrities attend a show - you never want the attention to be drawn too far away from the clothing.

  Mia Moretti

  Attention, Lines, Want

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Different boards do different things to the sound that's coming through them. An old Neve desk does embellish it in a way that makes it sound sort of bigger or warmer. It doesn't change the performance but it does enhance the way that it sounds.

  Dave Grohl

  Sound, Doe, Different

  "Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element - In A Machine". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.wbur.org. March 8, 2013.

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• When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.

  Dave Grohl

  Tape, Settling, Manipulate

  "Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element - In A Machine". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.wbur.org. March 8, 2013.

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• My family traveled with a whole community to European festivals. My mum did gymnastics, freak show performances, and swung fire in the circus, so I followed her footsteps.

  Neon Hitch

  Gymnastics, Fire, Community

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Anne Hathaway you gave a stunning performance in "Les Miserables." I have not seen someone so totally alone and abandoned like that since you were onstage with James Franco at the Oscars.

  Tina Fey

  Oscars, Abandoned, Stunning

  "Golden Globes 2013 are totally T & A". Opening of the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, www.chicagotribune.com. January 13, 2013.

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• Everything I'm teaching you about acting has one aim only: to fire you up emotionally and behaviorally so that you can give a vivid, involving, and memorable performance.

  Larry Moss

  Teaching, Memorable, Fire

  Larry Moss (2004). “The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor”, p.13, Bantam

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• You must create the character's internal life. What do I mean by internal life? I mean the thoughts, feelings, memories, and inner decisions that may not be spoken. When we look into the eyes of actors giving fully realized performances, we can see them thinking. We're interested in what they're experiencing that may never be spoken, that quality of nonverbal expression - which is as much a part of the characters as breathing and as real as what they say and do. This is their internal life. It helps us believe in the characters and care about them.

  Larry Moss

  Memories, Real, Believe

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